Language Semantics: @ symbol??

[James Stroud]

Peter Hansen wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> 
>> James Stroud wrote:
>>
>>> http://www.google.com/search?q=@
>>
>>
>> Doesn't work for me, I just get an (almost) empty Google page. Doesn't 
>> even say "No results were found", just a Google logo, some standard 
>> links in the footer, text box, etc.
> 
> 
> FWIW, same here.  Also the same for all other punctuation which I tried 
> except "*" which produces a tiny bit of something related to news, and 
> "&" which does in fact work "as expected" (though I now have to reset my 
> expectations of what should work, as apparently James does).
> 
> -Peter
> 

Sorry, bad humor.

James