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Sun, 12/14/2003 - 13:20 — Christoph C. Cemper

Jesse Ruderman just taught me something new:

Google uses "*" as a wildcard meaning "any word", so searching for

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	<p>christoph * house</p>

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could result in

  • Christoph IN THE house
  • Christoph OWNS A house
  • Christoph Cemper's house

I have to experiment with thatl…

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Sun, 12/14/2003 - 18:41 — R.I.Pienaar (not verified)

Google Wildcard Word

A nice side effect of the "*" is that it does not contribute to the word count in searches. Google only takes 10 words per search, using wildcards for some words you can put in more words per query.

Saw this in Google Hacks

Thu, 02/19/2004 - 13:12 — finny (not verified)

Google Wildcard Word

I was surfing along and came across your website. I really enjoyed it. Thanks!
This site is very informative. I hope to see more in the near future
Wishing you all the best

Fri, 05/07/2004 - 10:30 — dvd (not verified)

Google Wildcard Word

thanks

Fri, 05/21/2004 - 00:02 — anaconda (not verified)

Google Wildcard Word

Your message is very popular.
Thanks for the good info.
All the Best..

Wed, 05/26/2004 - 23:55 — Spiele (not verified)

Google Wildcard Word

You did great job with this site.

Master of Spiele

Sun, 06/20/2004 - 22:20 — marie (not verified)

Google Wildcard Word

I think Google has much to do to improve the search results anyway

Tue, 10/26/2004 - 11:12 — GMI (not verified)

Google Wildcard Word

goods job

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