I want to research smileys like ":-)" in a search engine. Type one in and you get nothing! Why? Who can help?
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I can answer the first of your two questions. You get no results because search engines treat most punctuation as white space. Smilies include punctuation marks (e.g. ":-)") and so search engines treat your query as empty.\n\nAs for your second question I think you are very unlikely to find anyone who knows a specialist search engine that does not filter out punctuation. Even if such an engine exists it would probably search far fewer sites than the dominant search engines and so the results would be less representative of what is typical smilie usage on the Internet. Good luck :-D
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™\n\nLook under "Entities for punctuation characters" on the linked site. Can't just put the entity here because it keeps turning it into the actual symbol. =)\n\nThis is the correct (X)HTML way to do this. Some people will probably say to do alt-0153 but that probably won't do the trick.
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http://www.33smiley.com/smiley5/index.html
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www.dictionary.com\nwww.mw.com\nwww.google.com - when you do a search type the following:\ndefine: search term (where "search term" is the word you are trying to define)\n\nFor example, if you wanted the definition of "happy" you would search the following on Google:\n\ndefine:happy
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It's a smiley face.  I wish someone would trell me what this means: \n( . )( . )\n\nor this:\n(_|_)
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A good way to do that kind of thing is to click start - run and type in charmap and click ok. It lets you view and paste any symbol possible.
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You have written the name of something followed by a question mark. \n\nIt is meaningless.\n\nWhat are your trying to find out?
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i found this site and it has lots of really cool smileys, hope you enjoy it as much as i do! LOL
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search for ascii art and emoticons\n\n><((((º>\n\n~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº>\n\n«©¿©»\n\nthese are single line for chats. they also have mutiline for forums, email and web sites.
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type it in a search engine
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the best website is www.smileycentral.com\n\nyou will get lot's of cursors and smileys for free.more that ten thousand!
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your smileys are nothing more than animated gif files you can save the ones you like (Right mouse click / save as) and use them either as a attachment or attach a picture in your e-mails
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try using "T/F"\np.s. include " (double quotes) in your search string
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You need to type the complete website, including http://\n\nFor example,  www.yahoo.com won't work, but http://www.yahoo.com will.
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Hold down the ALT key and then press numbers on the num pad. When you let go, it will type a symbol such as this smiley face: ☺ (ALT + 1).\nA heart is ALT + 3: ♥. You can press more than one number, though, such as ALT + 1 + 3: ♪. Similar things are usually grouped together, so ♥ is ALT + 3, ♦ is ALT + 4, ♣ is ALT + 5, and ♠ is ALT + 6. Experiment and you will find many  more.\n\nAnother way of doing it is to type special codes for certain entities such as &hearts ; (without the space inbetween the code and the semicolon) which is ♥. Here is a list of a bunch of them: http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/entities/symbols.html\n\nIf you're using Windows then a third way is to go to start > all programs > accessories > system tools > and character map (or just go to run and enter charmap). Then search for what you want, select it, copy it, and paste it wherever you want. For example, I found this in character map: ♫.
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type names into wikipedia.org\n\n***thank you in advance =)
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type < followed by 3 like <3 ?\n\n:-)\n\nor try\n\nhttp://www.text-image.com/samples/heart.html