diff --git a/mkdocs.yaml b/mkdocs.yaml
index 38786709319be..dfaac7481d209 100644
--- a/mkdocs.yaml
+++ b/mkdocs.yaml
@@ -63,7 +63,9 @@ plugins:
       module_name: mkdocs_macros
   - mkdocs-video
   - same-dir
-  - search
+  # https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/plugins/search/#config.separator
+  - search:
+      separator: '[\s\-_,:!=\[\]()"/]+|(?!\b)(?=[A-Z][a-z])|\.(?!\d)|&[lg]t;'
 
 markdown_extensions:
   - abbr