[X4U] Searching for "@" on Google?

[Eddie Hargreaves]

On 8/24/05 3:36 AM, Stroller <macmonster at myrealbox.com> wrote:

> On Aug 22, 2005, at 10:50 pm, Eddie Hargreaves wrote:
> 
>> ... 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.
> 
> The "filetype:" decelerator works for many types of files, but not,
> apparently, for .tivo.
> 
> http://www.google.com/search?q=film+filetype%3Atorrent

That's an interesting option that I was unaware of. However, it seems to
search for files that can be downloaded. I'm actually not looking to
download .tivo files (there would be no point in doing so) but rather
discussion of them.