Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Special Characters in Google Search

Unfortunately you usually can not search phrases with special characters. The following is the quote from the Google support link:
http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer=134479

Generally, punctuation is ignored, including @#$%^&*()=+[]\ and other special characters.
By the way, that article has this useful tip:
Search is always case insensitive. A search for [ new york times ] is the same as a search for [ New York Times ].

1 comment:

  1. SymbolHound is the only search engine I know of that doesn't ignore symbols: http://symbolhound.com/

    It's a new search engine for programmers that mostly indexes programming-related sites like StackOverflow. It just launched a month ago.

    Full disclosure: I am a co-founder and developer of SymbolHound.

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