Do you guys notice this?

[hwang]

When you type a keyword phrase, the results returned by the search engine will be different depending on your keywords arrangement order. For instance, just to make it clear, let's say I'm doing a search using "SEO service" and "service SEO" both will yield different search results.

In that case, does that mean our meta tags arrangement will have the same effect as well? It's quite complicated but anyone can help and answer this?

[sb123]

Every keyword is unique to Google, including any phrase. Again, a phrase in quote marks is different from the same phrase without the quote marks enclosing the phrase. "SEO" is different from "search engine optimization", even "and" & "AND" have different meanings! Therefore, you will find different result sets in such cases. Meta tag arrangement is a different issue. It's importance is relative to one another in the meta tag group for that page, and pertains to your own web page. The meta tags are used by Google to understand what the page is all about, especially the "theme" of that particular page. There are other aspects and algorithms that Google uses to understand your page, and meta-tags is just a little fraction of the bigger whole!

[hwang]

Yeah, when you have quote marks that means - display only search results having the "exact" phase in the right order but I didn't realize that even capital and non-capital letter can also mean different search results. Hmmm...definitely arrangement has its difference.