Does hyphenation affect search?

It depends on the search engine. Google and Yahoo properly handle the soft-hyphen character. Microsoft and Ask improperly treat soft-hyphens as word breaks. Fortunately, Google and Yahoo comprise more than 90% of the search market.

Because WordPress search queries the database—and hyphenation is not stored to the database-local search is not affected.


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