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> "Punctuation is sometimes seen as spaces. Our systems see some punctuation as spaces, which impacts quoted searches. For example, a search for [“don’t doesn’t
by wodenokoto 4y ago
> "Punctuation is sometimes seen as spaces. Our systems see some punctuation as spaces, which impacts quoted searches. For example, a search for [“don’t doesn’t”] tells our systems to find content that contains all these letters in this order:
"don t doesn t"
Others have pointed this bit out, but I'd like to ask specifically: How do you search for special characters?
I recently came across some R code that used %||% and you cannot search for this. As in, you cannot search the internet for this at all.
Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing, Yahoo, all of them will ignore special characters. Even Github search will strip out the special characters leaving you to search for nothing.
- alecco 4y agoTry "percent pipe pipe percent". If somebody bothered to spell it, it might show up. Might.
- nneonneo 4y agoTry the code: operator on StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=code%3A%22%25%7C%7C%25%22 https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=code%3A%22%25%7C%7C%25%22
- danuker 4y agoThank you! This is what I'll use from now on. And my use cases for Google keep dwindling.
- karlicoss 4y agohttpa://grep.app often helps for obscure code searches on GitHub
- godshatter 4y agoI tried "r operators pipe percent" (without the quotes) in search.brave.com, and it came back with this link as the second link: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50970207/what-does-the-operator-do-in-r-percent-pipe-pipe-percent https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50970207/what-does-the-o... I'm guessing that would work fine on google, but I don't go there so I can't be certain.