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

March 26th, 2009
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Searching for the string 'amp' on craigslist returns any results containing an ampersand
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  1. sam
    March 28th, 2009 at 08:21 | #1
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    Doubtless because they’re escaping ampersands in their HTML as &, and doing a plain old full text search.

  2. sam
    March 28th, 2009 at 08:23 | #2
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    Haha — I guess pre tags don’t work on &!

    & escaped as &