Language Semantics: @ symbol??

[Peter Hansen]

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