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Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

Tuesday, May 29, 2007
17 years ago2,377 views

When you search Google for [site:g] you get this strange result:

http://blogoscoped.com/files/site-g-screenshot.png

(Google seems to interpret both "[put at-character here]" and "&" charafters in URLs as end-of-domain indicators or something? Try site:www, site:a etc.)

Niraj Sanghvi [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Yeah, this leads to odd results too:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3A%26&btnG=Search

Looks like they're escaping the ampersand some of the time? The first result URL has an ampersand, but google shows the link as containing &

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