Sometimes I would like to find Web pages containing certain text and an e-mail address as well. Since e-mail addresses always contain the "" character, I figured that all I had to do in order to find pages on the espn.com Web site that contain the word "volleyball" and also contain an e-mail address was to search as follows:

site:espn.com volleyball ""

But that doesn't work. The "" character seems to be ignored by the search.

Does anyone know if there is a way to search for pages that contain the character ""?

Thanks!

I believe Google web search ignores your character, only Google Code search includes it (but it doesn't find regular websites).
http://www.google.com/codesearch

Google will ignore the @ symbol if you don't specify an exact email address. But if you do put an exact email address into your query, it seems to find that just fine. I think this is a good behavior so that people aren't creating email harvesting apps and letting Google do the hard work.

My years ago, google not have 1000 results limited and can use @ as keyword, I use google to find emails.
For example, @+fashion+inc,ect

> Google will ignore the @ symbol if you don't
> specify an exact email address.
> But if you do put an exact email
> address into your query, it seems to find that just fine.

Google doesn't care which special char you provided. "" works just the same as "." or "/". So when you search for "larrygmail.com" Google will find pages that contains ex.:

larygmail.com
lary.gmail.com
lary.gmailcom
lary/gmail.com
lary/gmail;com

and so on.

You can see this behavior for yourself by searching for domain with "" instead of ".", for example "gmailcom". It finds pages with "gmail.com" just fine. In fact results for "gmailcom" and "gmail.com" are EXACTLY the same.

> Sometimes I would like to find Web
> pages containing certain text and an
> e-mail address as well.

Google doesn't want to help people find pages with e-mail addresses. Spamers would love that.

Try searching for:
"at gmail.com" OR "at gmail dot com" OR...
(you could use gmail.com, yahoo.com, hotmail.com and other popular domains).

> Google doesn't want to help people find pages with e-mail addresses.

In other words: "Due to local laws and customs, some search results are not displayed".