Google has made some changes in Google search and announced that user can now search for Punctuation Marks which were ignored before.

Google has rolled out a small but interesting feature in search. Now it is showing results for punctuation marks in Google search. So far, punctuation marks have been ignored, and Google also never search for several common words such as “of,” “the” and so on.

Google wrote,”Google usually ignores punctuation and mathematical symbols from a query because it doesn’t index them. They rarely change the meaning of a query and Google’s index would have to grow a lot bigger, without improving the results too much. ”

But now Google give all these a little importance in search. Searches for [.], [,], [:], [;], [#], [%], [@], [^], [)], [~], [|], [“], [<], [$] all work. When you search for [%], Google shows the results for [percent sign] and that happens irrespective of the interface language, so it’s not a synonym generated by Google’s algorithms.

Searching for these marks will not give you relevant results because search for [:] and you’ll get the results for [colon]. Most results are about the colon from the human anatomy.

But this is just a start and Google is working on making more searches possible.