New Google Wildcard Query

• Posted by Badi Jones on August 11th, 2005 - Comment on this Post »

Google has added a new and powerful tool to their already dominating search engine. Searchers will now have the option to use the wildcard (*) within search queries.

This will make it much easier to find the answers to questions. Here’s an example:
[the capital of California is *]

Here’s another example from Google’s Blog: [Glasgow is the * capital of Europe]

Now Google Guys. If you are reading this, you guys have done an excelent job with this new wildcard search, but now you need to make some way to search for special characters. Stuff like this: &*()&-+. It would seem reasonable to just allow them to be escaped with a slash (\) character. I know this would only benefit a small percentage of Google users, but It sure would make me happy.

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