Commas in queries behave different in words and numbers

Clever behavior

[Slud]

Maybe this is old news, but it's something I haven't noticed before:

A search for "go,ogle" is equivalent to a search for "go ogle", but a search for "194,068" returns results that include "194068" and "194,068".

Similarly a search for "194,068" returns results that include "194068".

[seofreak]

numbers can interpreted with or without commas .. for e.g. 1,000 and 1000 are same .. but commas between words imply them to be seperate from each other.

[Mohamed_E]

That seems to me to be relatively new, as I definitely remember that, a year or so ago, I found that commas in numbers did matter (I have a keyword that is a four digit number).

Just checked and can confirm that they no longer make a difference.

[PCInk]

The same thing seems to happen with '-' now. Try searching for 'a-b' and the top result highlights 'AB', but it still matches 'A-B' also.