Language Semantics: @ symbol??

[Steven D'Aprano]

James Stroud wrote:

> http://www.google.com/search?q=@

Doesn't work for me, I just get an (almost) empty 
Google page. Doesn't even say "No results were found", 
just a Google logo, some standard links in the footer, 
text box, etc.

Even if Google did search for bare @ signs, surely the 
first bazillion and a half hits would be email address?



-- 
Steven.