It falls back to programming where an underscore is a valid variable-name part and if they treated the underscore as a separator, it would do not nice things with some search results. You can find the whole discussion on the Google blog.
-- Michael Dinowitz On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Justin Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Google actually changed this a couple years back, > > They've been treating underscores as part of the word since the very > beginning. I read somewhere a couple of years ago that they were beginning > to take context into account to decide whether the underscore should be > considered part of the word or as a separator, but I haven't been able to > find the source on that again or verify it. I always treat it as part of > the word and use a dash/hyphen for a word separator. > > > -Justin > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:312063 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
