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But in Altavista, you could have searched on foo bar, "foo bar", or foo NEAR bar; I still wish Google had the latter option.
by michael_dorfman 16y ago
But in Altavista, you could have searched on foo bar, "foo bar", or foo NEAR bar; I still wish Google had the latter option.
- losvedir 16y agoI think it does! You probably know that an asterisk stands in for a single word in a query, but if you add more asterisks then it stands in for more words. However, there's not a one-to-one correspondence between asterisks and words skipped. A "few" asterisks means skip a "few" words, and more asterisks means the words can be farther apart. So you can search for foo NEAR bar with something like foo * bar. At least, that was my understanding, but I can't seem to find that spelled out anywhere online after a quick search just now, so I could be way off.
- sp332 16y agoThis feature is similar: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22google+****+barcode%22 http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22google+****+barc... One star will fill in any number of words. If you use two or more stars, the number of stars is the number of words Google will fill in.