Google Search Showing Results For Punctuation Marks

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. […]

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.

Google Comma Results

Same with using a period [.]:

Google Period Results

Alex found that they work for the following marks:

  • .
  • ,
  • :
  • ;
  • #
  • %
  • @
  • ^
  • )
  • ~
  • |

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