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Google. Period.

This is really strange.

When I look for “asp.net” in google, I get back only one (!!) result: ww.asp.net.

When I look for “vb.net” in google, I also get only one site, which has nothing to do with vb.net.

Of course, when I look for “asp net” or “vb net” I get tens of millions of results.

I think it's time someone in google will hanlde the period thingy.

 

Posted: Apr 20 2004, 12:57 PM by memi | with 5 comment(s)
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# April 20, 2004 2:13 AM

adamw said:

Erm, this is normal - Google thinks (quite rightly) that you are typing a URL, and gives you the single URL view for "asp.net". At the bottom of the page, there's a link...

Find web pages that contain the term "asp.net"

Click that to run a normal search, which returns 4,940,000 results for me.
# April 20, 2004 6:09 AM

Shannon J Hager said:

Quotes are your friend. Always surround search terms with quotes when they have other punctuation or symbols in them. "C#", for example.
# April 20, 2004 6:18 AM

Scott Mitchell said:

Yeah, this was a concern many pointed out when Microsoft officially released ".NET" back in July 2000. Many people I talked to were concerned about search quality for technologies containing a common domain name suffix (.NET) as well as non-English characters (such as the # in C#). Of course, the name before .NET (+, as in ADO+, ASP+, etc.) would have been no better search-engine-wise, as + is a commonly used token in search engines! :-)
# April 20, 2004 12:38 PM

Dan K said:

did you search for asp.net or "asp.net"? "asp.net" yields tons of results. up with the quotes!!! yay!
# April 21, 2004 10:59 AM
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