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:
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
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
