Google has updated its search results for queries involving punctuation marks and symbols. Though not perfect, searching for the symbol equivalent of a period, comma, carat, percent sign and more punctuation marks now will return 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:
Other symbols and punctuation marks that Google can recognize and will return results for:
One symbol Google still doesn’t return results for is the asterisk (*).
On Bing, Yahoo, and other search engines, these punctuation searches will result in a message that no results were found.