Can Google differentiate Pronouns?

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As the topic states, can google differentiate between pronouns?

Lets say you own a local car dealership that also buys used cars. When you write your content or keywords its going to be about "sell your car". It wouldn't make sense for the business owner to try and optimize "sell my car", even though thats what the customer will likely search for.

However when your customer searches google, they will have a different perspective and search "sell my car".

The two phrases are similar, but the pronouns change depending on the perspective (business owners or customers). Will google take this into account and recognize that "sell your car" and "sell my car" are essentially the same?


Pronoun examples:
We
You
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  • Profile picture of the author kaytav
    It is better to optimize your website for sell my car, if that's what the user is going to search.
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    • Profile picture of the author chris_87
      @Kaytav, how would you content for "sell MY car" though? If you are a car dealership owner, and your service is to buy used cars, you wouldn't be writing using the pronoun "my" that wouldn't make sense.

      When you write content it would be "sell YOUR car", because thats a service you offer.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Your talking about stop words (ex: sell your car), which aren't as important as regular keywords (ex: sell car).

    Do a search for your keyword (sell my car) Google bolds the other stop word (your) without even searching for the keyword (your).

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    That link-assistant [dot] com link above says that Google doesn't consider stop words, IMO Google doesn't ignore stop words, they just don't give stop words much weight when traffic is searching for a search phrase. Google is obviously looking at the stop word (ex: my/your) or they wouldn't bold the stop words on the SERPs. I would still include the stop word someplace on the page being ranked, doesn't necessarily need to be an [exact] keyword phrase on the page, just mention the word wherever it makes sense.






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    • Profile picture of the author chris_87
      Excellent post, thank you Yukon for taking the time to write up your post. I really appreciate it.
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    • Profile picture of the author K Mec
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      Your talking about stop words (ex: sell your car), which aren't as important as regular keywords (ex: sell car).

      Do a search for your keyword (sell my car) Google bolds the other stop word (your) without even searching for the keyword (your).

      [edit]
      That link-assistant [dot] com link above says that Google doesn't consider stop words, IMO Google doesn't ignore stop words, they just don't give stop words much weight when traffic is searching for a search phrase. Google is obviously looking at the stop word (ex: my/your) or they wouldn't bold the stop words on the SERPs. I would still include the stop word someplace on the page being ranked, doesn't necessarily need to be an [exact] keyword phrase on the page, just mention the word wherever it makes sense.






      I agree and also want to add :

      Google is not displaying results flatly, the search results appearing on the basis of actual sense of the term.

      Google believes that you are searching for the services which helps you to buy or sell the cars. So it is displaying the list of sites which deals in buying or selling of cars.
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  • Profile picture of the author Hansons
    I think, these pronouns is not considered as main keyword part..... but they hold some value too.
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