October 01, 2003:
Usually, search engines will replace all punctuation marks with a space when they index Web pages. And if you use a punctuation mark between words in a query, the search becomes a phrase search. In other words, a search on import-export is the same as 'import export'. However, Google has a couple exceptions to this rule for two characters: the ampersand & and the underscore _. Both can be searched by themselves or as part of a character string. In other words, a search on adv_search gets different results than 'adv search' and &tc differs from tc. And for programmers, while it would not search # or in most cases, it does
differentiate c#, c , c , and c. It does not, however, differentiate c*, c @, or c -, interpreting c* as c and both c - and c @ as c . Other punctuation marks may change the sorting of results. So Google does some different treatment of punctuation marks, and it has changed over time as well."
InterActiveCorp is talking to Google about search - LOCAL 10/02/03: "InterActiveCorp Chief Executive Barry Diller said his company, which owns the Citysearch group of Internet sites, is in talks with Google Inc., the most-used Web search service, about collaborating to offer 'local' search. "
posted by Jen @ 8:26 AM
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