Google Indexing Wrong Slash in URL

[Limonadni Joe]

I have a page and one link to this page. The link url contain "\" instead of "/". Can it stop Google to index this page?

[g1smd]

Where is that link? On your own site or some other?

It needs fixing. The \ is always invalid in URLs.

[my3cents]

I wonder...

if \ is wrong, why does google even index anything with a "\" in it?

If you type the address that G has indexed with the \ you get an error page. Why would google take the title and description of a correct page/url, and even if they do fine an instance of \ that obviously leads them to an error page, and include it in their index or any other non-existent page.

Seems like they would at least be able to filter out things that are fundamentally wrong.