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That little plus sign forces you type the word Plus. I wonder if the Google engineers ever thought of the ramifications of that?

Perhaps this is some serious nit-picking, but it’s excessively annoying when a product named “Google+” has to be called “Google Plus” because you traditionally can’t use a plus sign in many web form fields, branded URLs and other areas you’ll come across as the most unknowing of times.

For instance, if you were to create a page URL on Squidoo or Hubpages using the officially branded word “Google+”, the system wouldn’t accept the plus sign. If you were to create a shortened Google+ URL on Bit.ly, you’d get the same error message. Hell, even the Wikipedia page for Google+ shows up in search results as “en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%2B”. Ugly.

What’s most annoying is that nobody uses the “Plus” word, but rather the plus sign. So, you’ll have to weigh your content toward “Google+” and its title as “Google Plus,” or else, the + will be ommitted and you’ll be attempting to rank for the single word “Google.” Ugh.

Maybe I’m looking too much into this! Damn my OCD.