That is correct. Exact search cannot search for a single word + comma form. This is because exact search matches the entire query exactly, including punctuation. For example, if you search for the exact query “the, cat”, Google will only return results that contain the phrase “the, cat” exactly, including the comma.
If you want to search for a single word + comma form, you can use a partial match query instead. Partial match queries allow you to search for words or phrases that may appear in any order, and they will also return results that contain the words or phrases you are looking for, even if they are separated by punctuation.
To search for a single word + comma form, you can simply type the word or phrase into the search bar without any quotation marks. For example, if you search for the query “the, cat”, Google will return results that contain the word “the” and the word “cat”, even if they are not separated by a comma.
Here are some examples of how to use partial match queries to search for single words + comma forms:
Query: the, cat
Results: pages containing the phrase “the cat”, the phrase “cat, the”, and the phrase “the, the cat”
Query: dog, leash
Results: pages containing the phrase “dog leash”, the phrase “leash, dog”, and the phrase “dog, the leash”
Query: apple, banana, orange
Results: pages containing the phrase “apple banana orange”, the phrase “banana orange apple”, and the phrase “orange apple banana”
You can also use the partial match operator (*) to search for single words + comma forms. The asterisk wildcard matches any number of characters, including spaces and punctuation. For example, the following query will return the same results as the previous query:
the*cat