[John Scott]

Originally Posted by Sadu

I based my conclusion on being able to get brand new word1word2.com domains ranking for their own name very very easily, and the fact the words in the result are bolded.

It's a common mistake. People think bolding equals parsing. It doesn't.

Originally Posted by My Blog

This really doesn’t help, because it’s generally agreed upon that the highlighting is not indicative of algorithmic parsing of keywords. In order to prove that Google’s highlighting is non-algorthimic, all we need to do is find an instance of Google highlighting non-words. That is to say, insofar as parsing keywords requires Google to identify actual words as such, highlighting non-words will prove that the highlighting is simple highlighting and not parsing.

And here it is:

webhos talk

Webhos is not a word, but Google highlighted the occurence of those characters anyway.

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Random letters, not a word, but Google highlights them anyway because Google’s highlighting is simply there to highlight. Not parse words - just highlight.

http://www.internet-marketing-blog.c...words-in-urls/ <-- Read that, much more in depth.