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I wonder if this is still accurate. Google has changed a huge amount in the past 6 years. These days, I notice a lot of important punctuation (along with entire
by code_duck 15y ago
I wonder if this is still accurate. Google has changed a huge amount in the past 6 years. These days, I notice a lot of important punctuation (along with entire words, intentional spellings of words, etc) are ignored by Google in search strings.
- brudgers 15y agoGoogle will even ignore terms in quotation marks these days.
- code_duck 15y agoGoogle completely ignores single quotes, but strings enclosed in double quotes are searched for about as I'd expect.... minus the punctuation. For instance, search for a phrase like 'imag' leader You get "Showing results for 'image' leader. Search instead for 'imag' leader." Change them to double quotes, and it actually finds "imag". Google suggests "Did you mean: "image" leader", but does not automatically change the search as in the other instance. However, search for something like "image.url", and it is the same as searching for "image url" (not imageurl). Google appears to replace the '.' with a space.
- koenigdavidmj 15y agoPrefix a token with + to force it to match.