Do search engines pick up dashes '-'

If for example, I was to register the domain name < orange-triangular-chocolate-chunks > and those words were entered in a search string without the dashes obviously, would it stand a reasonable chance of showing up?

K.


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Search engines treat dashes and underscores as whitespace, so yes, that string would be treated as separate words.

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Thanks Walt.

K.

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Sometime around 13/5/08 (at 13:00 -0400) Kryten said:

would it stand a reasonable chance of showing up?

Well - as Walter says, the different parts would be treated as words.
But the overall search result ranking would rely much more on the
page content. The difference the domain name itself would make would,
I suspect, be marginal at best.

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