Interesting Craigslist bug: ‘amp’ finds & (ampersand)

Searching for the string 'amp' on craigslist returns any results containing an ampersand

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2 Responses to “Interesting Craigslist bug: ‘amp’ finds & (ampersand)”

  1. sam Says:

    Doubtless because they’re escaping ampersands in their HTML as &, and doing a plain old full text search.

  2. sam Says:

    Haha — I guess pre tags don’t work on &!

    & escaped as &

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