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How to Google a question mark? [closed]

How to Google a question mark? [closed]

In a nutshell, I'd like Google to return pages where a question mark is present in the title.

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bert [Entry]

"From Google FAQ:

With some exceptions, punctuation is
ignored (that is, you can't search for
@#$%^&*()=+[]\ and other special
characters).

Following here:

Punctuation that is not ignored


Punctuation in popular terms that have particular meanings, like [ C++] or [ C# ] (both are names of programming languages), are not ignored.
The dollar sign ($) is used to indicate prices. [ nikon 400 ] and [ nikon $400 ] will give different results.
The hyphen - is sometimes used as a signal that the two words around it are very strongly connected. (Unless there is no space after the - and a space before it, in which case it is a negative sign.)
The underscore symbol _ is not ignored when it connects two words, e.g. [ quick_sort ].


So it seems that ? will be ignored by google no matter how you feed it to the search engine.

The only search engines that I have seen being aware of punctuation were code search engines."
bert [Entry]

"I'm pretty sure Google strips all queries of question marks (?s( by design, regardless of whether they exist inside quotes or not. This is probably because the less ""Google-aware"" ask everything as a question, when they simply want to be searching for terms. Unfortunately, I do not believe there's any way of escaping the character.

The vast majority of the time, question marks are indeed irrelevant, though understandably in certain contexts, including programming, it may be useful to include them in a query. Suggest the idea to Google? I can't say much more really..."