[X4U] Searching for "@" on Google?

[Michael Elliott]

This has been frustrating to me as well, especially when I try to  
search a name, for example John Smith.  I can type, with quotes,  
"John Smith" into the Google search field, but it will give me  
results like

"John Smith"

and even occurances separated by a comma in a regular sentence, like:

"Although he liked John, Smith was not impressed by his work ethic."

I don't want to search for "John, Smith"!

:-)

Michael

On Aug 22, 2005, at 4:50 PM, Eddie Hargreaves wrote:

> As the original poster noted, putting it in quotes does NOT improve  
> the
> results. I've encountered the same problem with the '.' character. For
> instance, when I searched for information regarding .tivo files,  
> when I
> entered .tivo into Google, it returned results matching 'tivo' and  
> when I
> typed in ".tivo" it returned the exact same results. There seem to be
> certain characters that Google completely ignores. If anyone else  
> finds a
> way around this, I'd be interested in hearing it.
>

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