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Doug wrote:
>> I'd be happy to find a (general, not code) search engine that was a
>> little more respectful of my punctuation. I hate the way Google filters
>> out pretty much all punctuation, even when the word is in quotes.
>> Showing me the results for "perl" is not helpful when I want "<perl>".
> 
> It might be interesting to pitch that idea to them since they appear
> to say all over the place: "we will listen to you".

Good point. So I did, and heres the reply I received from the founder,
Gabriel (http://ye.gg/):

  ...our 0-click index, including stack overflow, actually has full
  punctuation in it. Some of the underlying APIs we use, however, do
  not. So this is getting slowly better as we expand our own 0-click
  index, which I hope to include more programming documentation.


I gather by "0-click" he is referring to the class of search results
where they display the actual answer to your query on the result page,
rather than just a link and a summary. (Thus you don't need additional
clicks to obtain the answer.)

 -Tom

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Tom Metro
Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA
"Enterprise solutions through open source."
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