serp – Online SEO News – search engine News, latest seo news, webmaster news, search engine marketing https://www.searchenginegenie.com/news-seo Thu, 21 Jun 2012 06:35:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://www.searchenginegenie.com/news-seo/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/cropped-favicon-32x32.png serp – Online SEO News – search engine News, latest seo news, webmaster news, search engine marketing https://www.searchenginegenie.com/news-seo 32 32 Punctuation Marks and Symbols in Google Search Results https://www.searchenginegenie.com/news-seo/punctuation-marks-and-symbols-in-google-search-results/ https://www.searchenginegenie.com/news-seo/punctuation-marks-and-symbols-in-google-search-results/#respond Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:22:53 +0000 http://www.searchenginegenie.com/news-seo/?p=1391 Another update from Google on it’s search results and now you can see results for punctuation marks and symbols.Searching for the symbol equivalent of a percent sign,comma,carat and more symbols will return search results but the results are not exactly relevant.

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Wikipedia page ranks as the top link for for the following punctuation marks.

  • ^ (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)
  • . (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)

These punctuation marks in Yahoo and Bing diplays “No results found” to the user.

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