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loop444 - 10 Jun 2008 18:44 GMT

when searching with the address bar a % sign is added between each word being
searched therefor the sites are not found. can anybody help?????

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Gaurav Pandey - 10 Jun 2008 19:24 GMT

What is the search engine which you have configured?

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> when searching with the address bar a % sign is added between each word
> being
> searched therefor the sites are not found. can anybody help?????

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VanguardLH - 10 Jun 2008 20:15 GMT

> when searching with the address bar a % sign is added between each word being
> searched therefor the sites are not found. can anybody help?????

You sure it isn't %20 that is getting added between each word - because
YOU added a space between those words? There are NO SPACES allowed in
URLs so they must be converted into an character entity code.

Do a Google search to find an ASCII character chart. You'll see that
%20 is the hexidecimal value for the space character.

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PA Bear [MS MVP] - 10 Jun 2008 21:31 GMT

windows version? ie version?

> when searching with the address bar a % sign is added between each word
> being searched therefor the sites are not found. can anybody help?????

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Wanderer - 11 Jun 2008 20:47 GMT

The same thing happens to me. It makes no difference what search engine is
being used or how its configured, it still does it.

I use both Windows XP and Vista Ultimate with IE7. ALL completely updated...

This has been happening to me since the first time IE7 was installed.
learned to live with it.

> windows version? ie version?
>
> > when searching with the address bar a % sign is added between each word
> > being searched therefor the sites are not found. can anybody help?????

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PA Bear [MS MVP] - 11 Jun 2008 22:19 GMT

See this archived, related discussion:
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general/browse_
frm/thread/f0fff6ae704c2242

This one appears to be related, too:
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general/browse_
frm/thread/88b1bb374f72beee

I know there have been other discussions about this but I can't find them as
one cannot search on a punctuation mark (e.f., % ).

IIRC, there was such a bug when IE7 (and, possibly, Vista) was first
released. If so, I believe it was "fixed" in a Cumulative Security Update
for IE7.

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> The same thing happens to me. It makes no difference what search engine is
> being used or how its configured, it still does it.
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>>> when searching with the address bar a % sign is added between each word
>>> being searched therefor the sites are not found. can anybody help?????

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