IDN and filenames in Google Sweden
I’ve done some interesting observations on the IDN & filename fix that Google has applied to its Swedish version.
Until recent, Google could not handle IDN properly. It showed up something like “%c4pple.se” instead of äpple.se. You can see an example here on MSN.
There are still problems with the Toolbar PageRank.
Anther interesting thing is that we now can confirm that google treats o=ö, a=ä, å in filenames. You can see this by searching for a phrase that should contain any of the letters ö, ä, å, but contains their correspondents in english, e.g. http://www.google.com/search?q=sokmotoroptimering
A fynny side-effect of this is that if you search for a word that should not contain å, ä, ö; e.g. http://www.google.com/search?q=sokmötöröptimering
