
Journal Journal: Google Treating Entity Codes Differently?
So, I've got a blog post about a company with an ampersand (&) in its name that's been generating some odd search results. If you search Google for the part of the company's name before the ampersand, my post is the #1 result. If you search for the whole company name but use & to specify the ampersand, my post is the #1 result. If you specify the ampersand as just plain & or &, the top result is the home page of a company with a slightly different name. The odd thing is that they use & throughout their pages to specify their ampersand while my page is using #038;. You'd think that Google would treat & and #038; the same, but it seems they're being treated differently. Or is it just me?