Does Google understand the difference between “Drive” and “Dr” or “Ave” and “Avenue”?
Posted by pete quinlan on Feb 15, 2008
Nope!
Check out these queries by address…
3706 Perseus Dr, Sparks, NV 89436 - With Drive abbreviated
3706 Perseus Drive, Sparks, NV 89436 - With Drive Spelled out
3706 Perseus Sparks, NV 89436 - Now I will remove drive altogether
Interestingly enough, when the city, state and zip are removed the Zillow result is still returned first. Changing Dr to Drive not only removes zillow from the top spot…it’s nowhere to be seen?!?! I have found this to be true with Ave vs Avene as well. Now if I could only figure out why and how to fix this.
NOTE: During the half hour dedicated to this blog post I re-uploaded the images of the search results and now this post is showing up first in the SERPS with Drive spelled out.