|, or shifted ?
It’s a “pipe”. Used in coding quite a bit. Awk Grep Pipe.
pipe
One of the redirection operators from DOS (and probably earlier)
It’s a pipe, much beloved of programmer types.
Pipe.
Rio: Duran Duran.
It’s now used as an “OR” by Google in searches.
The Unicode codepoint names it VERTICAL LINE. There’s also a separate encoding for BROKEN BAR which originally appeared in EBCDIC and found its way into Unicode via ISO-8859-1.
Character set archeology is fun.
Pipe is what I thought. But I’ve only heard one person call it that, and when I have, people have given me confused looks.
And I’m a programmer type who hangs out with programmer types.
The use of | as a boolean OR predates Google by about a billion years.
Pipe, but just about everywhere you can substitute !
With netbooks and their smaller keyboards, the character is called a pipette.
So on super computers is it called a bong?
So as not to get all confused, check out:
http://admonkey.org/2008/07/25/british-airways-open-skies-ce-nest-pas-une-publicite/
Pong tennis paddle.
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Ceci n’est pas une pipe
Touché!
Yeah, but people use Google now.
DOS, not so much. 
I call it “Fred”.
A very small obstacle course.