If I search on YouTube for e.g. a>b
("a greater than b") I get a message
An error occurred during validation.
What is it validating? What does this syntax do, if anything?
How can I search for something with a ">" in it?
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Sign up to join this communityThe character > and < are special characters for HTML, which can be used with cross-site scripting. Thats why some website banned or filter these characters, and response with validation error. You cannot search these characters with Google too.
You can try search engine such as SymbolHound that supports special characters, although it is not working well with youtube at the moment.
&
just fine.
greater than sign
); regardless, it doesn't cause an error.