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Google Search experiencing internal issues with square bracket punctuation in URLs

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Google's John Mueller acknowledged internal issues with how the search engine handles square brackets in URLs.

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John Mueller confirmed that Google Search is experiencing internal issues parsing square bracket characters ([]) within URLs, responding to former Googler Vanessa Fox's observation about the problem.

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