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Unusual Words - How to Check what Google Recognises
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I want to check which words Google is aware of, I remember Danny Dover talking about "SeoMoz.org" and theorising that Google couldn't understand that SEO was in the URL because it didn't understand that "Moz" was a word and therefore couldn't seperate the 2 words "SEO and "Moz" out.
Any ideas, I thought about using Google Instant but as it comes up with "seomoz" when i type in "seom" so am assuming that this detail is taken from a diffrent source.
Justin
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I want to check a specific word, Google translate doesn't seem to do much apart from guess no matter what you put in.
Anyone got any ideas?
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That's a pretty big ask. Are you just wanting to check a specific word or you looking for general examples?
Best thing I could think to come up with would be to put it into Google translate under detect language and translate into another language. 'moz' seems to be German for example.
I think Google can understand more words than they have in their translate databases though, but very difficult to come up with a test for this. Instant and suggest would both be as bad as each other.
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