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Google searches ignore punctuation, so it's not even indexed, so there's no way to search for punctuation without inflating the index


Read what I said. They can use the standard index, then filter the results as a last pass.


I did read what you said. Imagine trying to search for

  [::]
as 8192kjshad09- suggested earlier in the thread. What standard index results are you going to filter? Since "[::]" isn't in the index, you won't have anything to go on. To do your back-tick really-verbatim searches, the index has to be enlarged.


Ah, sorry, I see what you mean.




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