[ale] OT: Using google search

[Bob Toxen]

Just quote the exact phrase.

On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 11:34:47AM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 21:47 -0400, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > I'm having issues looking for exact phrases in google.  I want to 
> > look at for all the 'brower.toolbar' options for the Mozilla user prefs
> > file but I can not get Google to see the '.'.  It keeps removing it and
> > breaking the words in too.  Is there any way to tell google to look for 
> > exactly what I ask for.  I have this problem many times when I want to
> > find information about Perl modules.  Google can ignore the '::'.
> 
> >From Google:
> 
> --------
> As you've noticed, Google doesn't recognize search terms containing
> periods, question marks, the @ sign, and other such characters. These
> characters are so common that including them in a search would greatly
> slow the delivery of the search results. Additionally, the use of
> punctuation on the web is so inconsistent (for example, there's no
> obvious way to decide between Mr. and Mr) that including it in the query
> often does more harm than good to the relevance of your search results.
> 
> While we don't currently offer a way to force Google to recognize all
> special characters, we understand that many useful search terms do
> contain such characters. We've generated exceptions for terms like C++
> and $10, and we're studying ways to enable search terms like C/net.
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> 
> Interesting.
> 
> -Jim P.
> 
> 
> 
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