Jan 23, 2012 at 9:09am ET by Barry Schwartz

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Alex Chitu reports Google is now showing search results for punctuation marks and other types of symbols. In the past, Google ignored most punctuation marks and didn’t show any results for them that were useful. Now Google is.

For example, a search for , returns pages on the topic of usage of comma in your writing.

Same with using a period [.]:

Alex found that they work for the following marks:

.
,
:
;
#
%
@
^
)
~
|
“

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http://booleanstrings.com Irina

Google doesn’t really search for punctuation marks. If it did it would be a revolution! Try http://bit.ly/xsgLE3

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