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November 16
[edit source]Google search with vertical bar in string
[edit source]In Google can I do a web search with a string that contains a vertical bar, |? I mean I want to find pages which have the exact string between quotation marks "A|B" for example. --Atethnekos (Discussion, Contributions) 05:27, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
- Google ignores most symbols, take a look at [1] and [2]. Moreover, Google uses the pipe for "or", see [3]. So, short answer, you can't. Symbolhound allows you to search with special characters (I don't know how many sites they have indexed, though), here's what they return [4].Phoenixia1177 (talk) 06:23, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
- Thanks. Yeah, I'm not finding anything helpful; it's too bad there isn't more available. --Atethnekos (Discussion, Contributions) 23:16, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
- The problem isn't really with the search - it's what Google actually save when they index a web page. They don't store symbols like that in their database - so there is literally no possible way to search for it. SteveBaker (talk) 18:12, 18 November 2013 (UTC)