On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Ken Dibble <[email protected]> wrote: > >>And one more thing: I am still waiting for your answer on this: what your >>application does if the user wants to search for >> >>"Mom and Pop" shop >> >>(double quotes included, because that's the real name of the shop)? >> >>I really hope you won't tell me "I do not allow double quotes in the name" >>or "that will never happen in my system" > > 2. Many search engines strip out punctuation of all kinds, and sometimes > even spaces, in user input, before submitting the search term to a query. > This is what Google does, in essence (though I'm sure they're much more > sophisticated about it than I can be).
Thankfully it doesn't. I regularly have to add quotes to my Google searches. It does tend to strip the '#' from C# though... -- Paul _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
