[LINK] Diacritics and Search Engines

Alastair Rankine arsptr at internode.on.net
Wed Jan 16 12:43:57 AEDT 2008


Roger Clarke wrote:
> It's embarrassing to have to admit it (because I've done some work in 
> this area), but I've just twigged to the obvious - diacritics such as 
> umlauts, acutes and cedillas are not handled well by search-engines.

WFM:

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=%C3%9Cberveillance&cr=countryAU&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0

Your paper appears as the second result.

Note that Ü is a different character to U, no surprise that it should 
change the search term.




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