Google has learned to understand punctuation and symbols

When Google introduced Google results into the main search results a week ago, they got into an argument with Twitter. The Twitter company was offended that Google allegedly specifically ignored their 200 million daily tweets. For example, when requesting [@nba], when a user obviously looks for twitter on the National Basketball Association, the search engine does not take into account the [@] sign and returns results similar to the search query [nba]. The same is true for other requests with the [@] icon. In response, a Google representative calmly explained that their search engine never indexed punctuation, including @.

Now Google is still looking for punctuation marks. True, not at all like Twitter. The search system still does not index them, but only recognizes [@] and other characters in the search line: [.], [,], [:], [;], [#], [%], [^], [)], [~], [|], ["], [<], [$]. They are automatically translated into the corresponding dictionary queries. For example, the search query [@] is recognized as the query [at sign], and [% ] is recognized as [percent sign].


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At the same time, in the search query [@nba], the [@] icon is still ignored, and the organization’s official twitter is far from the beginning of the search result.