Why doesn't Google allow wildcards in their searches?

[edprush]

it sure would be helpful

 

[FoBoT]

like what?

 

[AFB]

Because they're evil!

Jk, I have not a clue but it sucks!!

 

[edprush]

some searches use an "*" or an "%"

 

[edprush]

bump

 

[benliong]

Probably because of the way search engines works. All the pages they have crawled are in their database, and when you do a search of say "PHP MVC Framework", they would already consider searching sites that have each one of these words seperately. So in effect it's like doing a search on "PHP * MVC * Framework", unless specifcally told to do otherwise.

I don't imagine it could help a whole lot, but I could be wrong.

 

[edprush]

it would be helpful if I wasn't sure of part of a name for example but I knew some of it.


lets say I didn't know how to sell the US Presidential primary candidates last name (it could be Kerry, Kary, Karrie, Karry... but I new it started with a "K").


this would be the wildcard search, "John K*"

I know this is a bad exampe because you could type in: "John primary candidate" and easily get results.

Oh well.

 

[konichiwa]

Originally posted by: edprush
it would be helpful if I wasn't sure of part of a name for example but I knew some of it.


lets say I didn't know how to sell the US Presidential primary candidates last name (it could be Kerry, Kary, Karrie, Karry... but I new it started with a "K").


this would be the wildcard search, "John K*"

I know this is a bad exampe because you could type in: "John primary candidate" and easily get results.

Oh well.

That's exactly why there is no need for wildcards. You can just add other words that may occur in the page to serve as wildcards.