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People in Google's search quality team really do like to read posts like this as long as someone mentions the searches they were doing.

Okay, here goes. Lately I have been doing a lot of C# searches. Google suggest strips out the hash (#) from the suggest items, so I keep getting faked out by likely C programming matches. Can you please stop stripping off the "#"? Otherwise, I'll need to attach a hot wire to my down arrow to break the habit. Thanks.

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I'm pretty sure that several search quality people are reading this thread now, but I'll try to mention this explicitly to people. Thanks for the suggestion.

Normally Google doesn't allows searches for punctuation, because doing so would swell the index size a lot for very little return in terms of helpful searches. But since we're engineers, we do search some punctuation, e.g. underscores so you can search for sprintf_s, and terms like C# and F#. I'll ask whether the # can carry through into Suggest.

You should really automate this feedback process by mining the web for examples where people complain about Google quality AND they mention the search queries themselves :-)

Thanks, nhebb. ntoshev, now you're thinking like a Google employee. :)

You're a Good Egg, Matt.

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