searches containing symbols - how?

[jammy3]

I have been trying to find out how to search for "dvd+r" and not have the + be considered a boolean AND, or have it ignored completely. The results always include:

dvdr
dvd+r
dvd-r

thanks.

[mcanerin]

I don't think it's possible, at least with Google.

I just tried to do the following search:

"dvd+r" -"dvd r"

Which should return all results that contain the first part but ignore everything that treats the plus sign as a space, and there were no results.

I even tried to use the ASCII code for the plus sign but that didn't work either.

The only time I could get the + to be recongised as non-boolean was when you use Google in Calculator mode: ie: 24*6+8, which responds with an answer to the equation.

Ian

[jammy3]

Thanks Ian,

I had tried with a preceding "\" which sometimes makes the next character a literal, but didn't have any success with that.