Google: Actually, Dashes Aren’t The Same As Underscores Yet
Matt Cutts of Google informs everyone that reports of Google now treating underscores as word separators is not yet happening.
Matt explains:
I wouldn’t consider it a completely done deal at this point. But note that I also said if you’d already made your site with underscores, it probably wasn’t worth trying to migrate all your urls over to dashes. If you’re starting fresh, I’d still pick dashes.
It’s Not Just Google That Treats Underscores Like Dashes that I wrote a few weeks ago, obviously now needs to be updated.
We will keep you informed of any new changes with this, as we hear updates.
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