[Bubba]

Anyone know?

[andy_e]

if you were to search for violent new breed 9a+ I'd put it as "violent new breed" AND "9a+" but you may not need the AND. You've probably tried that already though  :roll:

[Control freak]

If you put it in quotes then this should work, and if you put a plus in front of that it should force it to use it as a search term eg +"+"

Theres no need to put AND in front of any terms. Google does it for you

[Bubba]

If you put it in quotes then this should work, and if you put a plus in front of that it should force it to use it as a search term eg +"+"

That's what I've tried but it doesn't work.

I was hoping you could some how escape such characters, eg ++ or something but I can't find any info on it.

[andy_e]

you know when you type a space and it comes up a whole load of numbers? fo example common knowledge.mpeg becomes common%20knowledge.mpeg... you could find out what that is and use that... (once again not much help )

[Control freak]

%20 I think represents the unicode character for a space in hex. Not really much help here but good guess

[andy_e]

Ah right.. I'm guessing there's a unicode character for + then?

[Bubba]

I've tried to find a way of doing this, but not sure how - some characters work (eg Greek alphabet) but not sure what you'd use for +, -, etc.

[Control freak]

What is it exactly that youre trying to search for?

[Bubba]

I was trying to search about how to get content from a Sky + hard drive to a PC dvd burner - pretty mundane I know  

I've found the right place to ask that particular question, but being able to search for +, _, etc would be quite handy in other scenarios too.

[squeek]

I don't really know what you're all trying, but if you were searching for, say 9a+ violent new breed, if you put "9a+ violent new breed" into google then it searches for it.  link

You can hack the search URL and put the ascii hex code for the + symbol in (%2B), but why bother when just putting the + works?

If you're asking how you would put it on it's own then I don't know, but if it's pre/post fixed onto another word like 8a+, or sky+ then it just work entering it.  There is an o'reilly book called Google hacks that might be able to shed some light on it.

[Bubba]

Yes, searching for "sky+" does work, but that's not what I'm after.

If you search for "sky +" then you are just effectively searching for "sky" - it just ignores the "+" completely.

Try searching for "3 + 2 = 5", and you get results like "3-2-5" - not much use.

It's not the end of the world, but I would really like to know how it's possible to escape such characters.