rlange - 1:52 pm on May 23, 2012 (gmt 0)

FranticFish wrote: This is interesting in another regard. The pipe symbol traditionally means 'OR' yet many people (myself included) have used it as a separator without thinking. Does this mean that Google do definitely view it as only a separator?

In general typography, as far as I'm aware, the vertical bar's traditional use (or one of them, at least) is as a divider.

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Ryan