I was googling for info on [fuþorc] and got several results for "futhorc" which is an alternate spelling (based on the fact that þ = thorn = "th" sound) So then I tried searching for just [þ] and got several results with just "th" in them. I thought it was interesting that google "knows" that a þ's modern equivalent is "th". Can anyone else find examples of this?

wow great! This is what they call it as Artificial Intelligence ?

I also tried this with "Æ".

and the SERP kinda returns this first. Which indicates that google has the ability to segregate certain characters pretty well.. (at least thats, mho!!)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86