Google’s John Mueller mentioned Google Search will de-duplicate its search outcomes based mostly on virtually duplicates. John mentioned this on Twitter the opposite day when requested about canonicalizing worldwide URLs.

John wrote “We do de-duplicate based mostly on “almost-duplicates” (I forgot the precise title), in order that may be what you are seeing there.” I do marvel what the title is for deduplicating “virtually duplicates.”

Listed here are these tweets:

We do de-duplicate based mostly on “almost-duplicates” (I forgot the precise title), in order that may be what you are seeing there. Additionally, for somebody promoting flags, I am upset that your Swiss flag is incorrect. Christian. /shakeshead :-))

— 🌽〈hyperlink href=//johnmu.com rel=canonical 〉🌽 (@JohnMu) September 21, 2022

AFAIK we do attempt to choose up on that, but when that is actually the one distinction: good luck. Additionally it is typically high-quality to have them as duplicates, we are able to nonetheless present the suitable URL in search even when it is seen as a replica.

— 🌽〈hyperlink href=//johnmu.com rel=canonical 〉🌽 (@JohnMu) September 21, 2022

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