: Does google use transliteration when crawling page URLs and indexing them? In a generic search Google understands transliteration and if I wrote some words using Latin letters but in a non-English

@Si4351233

Google classifies transliteration of language and actual characters of a language as two different things. Another common example is the greek language. A common practice by many users online is to write greek words but transliterate so they can use a western character set and keyboard to do it. Take the following...

papou and παππούς. They both mean grandfather in greek but are treated as two separate words for the purposes of a Google search. The first one I wrote using my standard western keyboard which was easy to do but to be able to produce the second one I actually needed to load up a greek on screen keyboard to be able to access greek character sets.

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