Including + (Plus) sign

[riteshjain1982]

Dows anyone knows how to include + sign while using search engine like google or yahoo,as + sign has special meaning for them so it exclude that from search

[mendhak]

The - excludes words from the search. The + is an and. And they process it by parsing the string or using regular expressions.

[riteshjain1982]

thanks for reply, what i was looking for is for example i want to search something related to "Tree view's + image" (i.e node expand) so how can i include phrase in my search query so seach engine will return me all result that has "+" symbol in it?

[techgnome]

in that particular case you should search for "Tree view expand node image" or "tree view expand icon" or "tree view expand indicator" ....

-tg

[riteshjain1982]

well that was just example,anyway thanks for you time.Seems its not possible to include +,- as search criteria.

[03myersd]

What is it that you actually need the sign for? There is no reason I can think of other than searching for a mathematical formula? And you would really be searching for it by entering it into a Google search box?

[riteshjain1982]

well ione of the example i gave above other could be + sign in DataGrid when you show Parent - Child relation and as you mentioned mathematical formulas and i noticed most of the memeber use + rather than word like expand while posting in forum like VBF and other so just thought will be be easy to search those thread using search engine..

[mendhak]

That's probably a limitation for now, you'd really need to know what that thing's name is to search for it. Which can be a little frustrating. For example, not everyone will know that ~ is a tilde, but it's used in ASP.NET. It's just difficult finding information about it without asking or knowing what it's called.