The Java Hacker – Peter Jaric’s Blog

Recently Google announced that they have acquired Aardvark, a service that finds the right person to answer any question you might have. I’ve used it frequently for a little while, and while I think it is a very cool idea and answering questions is quite addictive, I think there is a problem with the quality [...]

Try these Google searches:

basket “peter.jaric”
basket +”peter.jaric”

They return different results, and number 2, the one with a plus sign, returns a lot more. Why is that?
Note that these two searches don’t differ:

basket “peter jaric”
basket +”peter jaric”

So there is some problem when using a dot instead of a space. The dot seems to cancel the + [...]