Scroogle search URL filter

[JJoe]

Oddysey Wrote:The question was, does FF look at hyphens and convert them to spaces?

It better not. The people at http://mail-archives.apache.org/ might be very lonely.

The Browser's code knows "siamese cat/" is not a URL, so the Browser sends the string to a search engine.
"siamese-cat/", however slips through and is sent to Proxomitron.

Siamesecat Wrote:Google ignores hyphens, which is why the hyphen trick can be used.

I don't think hyphens are ignored. I'd expect searching for "siamese-cat" to match "siamese cat" but not "cat siamese" or "siamese stuff cat".
Hyphens were used to provide order.

The filter removes the hyphens and replaces them with "+"s.
You lose the ability to provide order via the hyphen and negate matches but most people don't do this anyway.
Of course, there may be a character other than "-" that could be used.

http://www.google.com/search?q=siamese++-cat
searches for pages with siamese but without cat.

HTH