Google Upgrades Punctuation Search Results

Google has updated its search results for queries involving punctuation marks and symbols. Searching for the symbol equivalent of a period, comma, carat, percent sign and more symbols now will return search results – though they aren't always exactly relevant, Google Operating System reported.

Punctuation marks now generating search results, generally where the Wikipedia page about the symbol ranks as the top link, include:

• . (full stop/period)
• , (comma)
• : (colon) – however, the colon that is a piece of the large intestine currently outranks the punctuation mark of the same name
• ; (semicolon)
• # (number sign)
• % (percent sign)
• @ (at sign)
• ^ (caret)
• ( ) { } [ ] (bracket) – parentheses, brackets and curly brackets are all combined into the same search result
• ~ (tilde)
• | (vertical bar)
• “ (quotation marks)
• < (less-than sign)
• > (greater-than sign)
• $ (dollar sign)

Other symbols and punctuation marks that Google can recognize and will return results for:

• ! (exclamation point)
• ‘ (apostrophe)
• & (ampersand)
• _ (underscore)
• - (minus sign)
• + (plus sign)
• = (equals sign)
• \ (backslash)
• / (slash) – however, guitarist Slash currently outranks the punctuation mark of the forward slash Read More