I am Walter Underwood. Welcome to my weblog. My freshman physics professor was fond of the phrase "intuitively obvious to the most casual observer." My friends and I thought that a "most casual observer" would be a damned handy thing to have available in the laboratory, because you could just ask them and skip the experiments.
I'll be sharing my observations here.
well, search engines that don't index punctuation will match most of those?
Posted by: searchtools
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September 13, 2007 11:45 AM
Mostly I wanted to share the post because even anecdotal lists of these things are so rare.
The ones with "and" or "&" will be a problem. There is also a question of whether the quote is deleted or turned into a space. Does "L'Avventura" become "L Avventura" or "LAvventura"?
I also think the wide variety of straight and curly quote usage is interesting, along with the correct version showing up as the 11th most popular.
Finally, these are all entered into metadata, not a quick query, so people are making some attempt to get it right. This is more like cataloger agreement for amateurs than like search, or maybe like differences in spelling for web pages instead of queries.
Posted by: Walter Underwood
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September 13, 2007 01:49 PM