Searching for that special character
Tudor thinks that searching for special characters (like: ` ~ ! @ # $ % ^ ( ) - = + { } [ ] | \ : ; †etc) on Google, generates a weird behavior. Others try to explain why that happens, in the comments area. I had no clue about what is this about, so I’ve googled for: “google about special characters” and found some other people that try to explain that ‘weird behavior’:
Google Special Character Search String Bug
How to search for special characters
I’ve tried other search engines and they all returned no content, but at least they suggested trying other keywords (or search for help elsewhere, like Yahoo! Answers ). My opinion is that Google tried to simplify the algorithm as much as possible but disregarded some minor negative effects on some sensible users.
Because I had a lack of inspiration lately, instead of posting my little research on Tudor’s blog as a comment, I’ve posted this as an article in my own blog. But there is a possibility that, because I’ve put a link to his post, this one will be shown as a trackback, therefore as a comment. Because I want to respect Tudor’s requirement, I had to write this in English.
Huper :: Oct.04.2007 :: News and stuff [...] :: 1 Comment »
Thank you for respecting my recommandation to answer in English if the original post in written in English. This is manly because I have friends abroad, geeks like me, who might be interested to find out more on the topic from the comments and they can’t read romanian.
onTopic: the asterisk generates different results that all other characters in the list. Pretty strange…