How punctuation works in Google Search

by Brian Turner

Andy from Receptional posts a neat guide on Webmasterworld about how Google deals with punctuation in search:

Key_word – underscores not treated as a break, so searches for “key_word”
Key&word – search for “key” AND “word”
Key¦word – search for “key” OR “word”
Key”word – search for “key word”
Key*word – wildcard – anything that includes something between “key” and “word”
Key~word – search for related searches for “key” and “word”
Key-word – search for “keyword” as well as both “key” and “word”

I didn’t know some of these operators myself, so god knows how Andy found them – Dixon, you’re not working him hard enough!

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