How do you search searches that include Google functional characters, like
-*"
on Google?
For example, how would one search for "Hello World" with the quotes included into the search?
Google Search – How to Escape Functional Characters
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Best Answer
The general answer from Google is that you can't get Google to recognize symbols as literals in a search. There are a few special things symbols are used for (e.g.
-to negate a word) and other than that they're ignored. It's unfortunate, but that's what seems to be for most search engines. SymbolHound is a search engine designed to fix this problem, but it seems to have an extremely limited search set.It seems that searching using symbols is a problem that is largely not dealt with, which is unfortunate for those of us who need to include symbols in our search queries on a regular basis.