{"id":1391,"date":"2012-01-24T02:22:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T06:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/?p=1391"},"modified":"2012-06-21T02:35:20","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T06:35:20","slug":"punctuation-marks-and-symbols-in-google-search-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/punctuation-marks-and-symbols-in-google-search-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Punctuation Marks and Symbols in Google Search Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another update from Google on it&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"imageclose-1392\"><div class=\"lb-album\"><a href=\"#image-1392\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/punct-marks-300x202.jpg\"  class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1392\"><span><\/span><\/a><\/div>              \r\n<a href=\"#imageclose-1392\" class=\"css3lightbox-close\">\r\n\t\t\t\t   <div class=\"lb-overlay\" id=\"image-1392\">\r\n                   <img src=\"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/punct-marks.jpg\" alt=\"image-1392\">\r\n                   <\/div><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia page ranks as the top link for for the following punctuation marks.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>^ (caret)<\/li>\n<li>( ) { } [ ] (bracket) \u2013 parentheses, brackets and curly brackets are all combined into the same search result<\/li>\n<li>~ (tilde)<\/li>\n<li>| (vertical bar)<\/li>\n<li>\u201c (quotation marks)<\/li>\n<li>&lt; (less-than sign) &gt; (greater-than sign)<\/li>\n<li>$ (dollar sign)<\/li>\n<li>. (full stop\/period)<\/li>\n<li>, (comma)<\/li>\n<li>: (colon) \u2013 however, the colon that is a piece of the large intestine currently outranks the punctuation mark of the same name<\/li>\n<li>; (semicolon)<\/li>\n<li># (number sign)<\/li>\n<li>% (percent sign)<\/li>\n<li>@ (at sign)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These punctuation marks in Yahoo and Bing diplays &#8220;No results found&#8221; to the user.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another update from Google on it&#8217;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. &nbsp; Wikipedia page ranks as the top link for for the following punctuation marks. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[100,209],"class_list":["post-1391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-search-engine","tag-rankings","tag-serp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1391"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1726,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions\/1726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}