Google PR is Case Sensitive
When a little digging up, I found enough evidence to believe that…
1. Google searches are never case sensitive – as we have a tendency to already knew.
2. Google PR is case sensitive – as I suspected, in step with net standards, URLs are case sensitive. Google and alternative search engines follow this standard.
There have been a few reported cases of the same pages being in Google’s index 2 or additional times as a result of they were linked to with totally different cases (ie.: /ABC.htm, /abc.htm, /Abc.htm).
The foundation of the problem, as you’ll have guessed, is Microsoft’s ignorance towards internet standards. Microsoft servers are set up in opposition to the web standard on case sensitivity in which /ABC.htm is totally different from /abc.htm. IIS ignores the case completely different and gives management of the request to wrong file.
My web site is on a Windows Server, how dangerous is the problem?
Well, it isn’t going to ‘bring down the web’ as some lammers might counsel, but there are issues that need to be addressed. IIS’s choice to ignore case sensitivity means that search engines (that are case sensitive) will index the precise same
