URL Escape

A way of representing characters in a URL so that the URL consists only of a subset of ASCII. Can be exploited to avoid reflexive googlewhacking.

• google:url-escape

Sorry, didn't manage to pull the original from the archive in time. -- TA

Certain characters (like spaces) can't be written in a URL, but would be really useful. Thus, there is a mechanism for including arbitrary characters without actually writing them, although it can only be used in the path (the bit after the domain name). The offending character is simply replaced by a percent sign followed the ASCII code of the letter, in hexadecimal (with a leading zero if appropriate).

Will this do? Snatched from Google cache.