bfonnesbeck: How do you search for special characters in google?
How do you search for special characters, such as commas, , , and other symbols, in google? It seems to ignore the symbols for the search and enclosing the symbol in quotes or using + or – before the symbol seems to have no effect. Are there any special commands that would enable google to search this way or is the search engine just not smart enough, yet?
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Answer by ohjeezcomeon
Put the characters in quotes. ” “
Google ignores a lot of common symbols and a lot of common words, like “&” and “and”. There is no real fix that I know of.
You can type the symbol into https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/search.htm which at least gives its Unicode name, then search on that name or on a Unicode alias in Google. That will give you what you want in some cases.
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