<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">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<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>"John Smith"</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>and even occurances separated by a comma in a regular sentence, like:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>"Although he liked John, Smith was not impressed by his work ethic."</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I don't want to search for "John, Smith"!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>:-)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Michael</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Aug 22, 2005, at 4:50 PM, Eddie Hargreaves wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">As the original poster noted, putting it in quotes does NOT improve the</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">results. I've encountered the same problem with the '.' character. For</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">instance, when I searched for information regarding .tivo files, when I</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">entered .tivo into Google, it returned results matching 'tivo' and when I</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">typed in ".tivo" it returned the exact same results. There seem to be</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">certain characters that Google completely ignores. If anyone else finds a</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">way around this, I'd be interested in hearing it.</FONT></P> <BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>