As I learnt from this post, Google has no ability to search for special characters. Let's say I want to search for ss!. Are there any other search engines that can achieve this? Please do not propose any programming code search engines since this is a general search.
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According to one report it appears that Google is now allowing for searches for punctuation. No word on exactly which punctuation is included (although a dozen or so were tested) and I don't see information on punctuation with text.
I think DuckDuckGo search engine does the search including special characters. See the search for MM! here.
DuckDuckGo does not, but you can search symbolhound on DDG with !symbolhound
- 2Not exactly. The first few results include
MM!but if you scroll down a little bit, there is no exact results. I also triedxyz#on DuckDuckGo but it couldn't do it.Mehper C. Palavuzlar– Mehper C. Palavuzlar2011-11-16 15:14:56 +00:00Commented Nov 16, 2011 at 15:14
Use double quotes—"—to wrap the special character.
- 7I don't have the rep to downvote, so Raju, please remember to check the validity of your answers, before providing them.user66001– user660012014-08-16 03:55:48 +00:00Commented Aug 16, 2014 at 3:55
- 1It says right in the question why this doesn't work.JeremyP– JeremyP2016-10-31 11:28:03 +00:00Commented Oct 31, 2016 at 11:28
MM!without extension. This could be done by a virus or a program. The search results fetched forMM!is nonsense.*MM!*I will get the first hit as Symantec site threat list, where justMM!would give millimetre etc. What folder is it in ? is it a program folder a system folder, is that the real file name ? descriptions like these will lead to a better search it still applies to the+=case. What are you asking for is localized and will not be able to make a top hit unless more information is placed in the queryss!it will greatly help Google if you supply as much information as you can. Also, try putting quotes around terms that need to be found together.