Major Search Engines Are Not Able To Search Musical Notes

Google, Yahoo! and Bing are not friendly to musicians. You can’t search for musical notes with these major American search engines.

A search for at Google, Yahoo! and Bing will return the following results:

Google

♫

http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en#hl=en&source=hp&q=%E2%99%AB&rlz=1R2GGLL_enMY363&aq=f&aqi=g10&oq=&fp=baa94940edcea411

Yahoo!

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=%E2%99%AB&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-701

Bing

Bing

http://www.bing.com/search?q=%e2%99%ab&mkt=en-us&FORM=TOOLBR&DI=6244&CE=14.0&CM=SearchWeb

Google Suggest

Baidu, Chinese top search engine, will return results for but it is in HTML format (♫) instead of the note symbol ♫.

Baidu

http://www.baidu.com/s?wd=%26%239835%3B

The only search engine listed at Ultimasurf search engine directory that will return a search result for musical notes is Cuill. As of February 12, 2010, Cuill has 124 results for ♫.

http://www.cuil.com/search?q=%E2%99%AB

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