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I vaguely recall that there used to be a feature (and possibly this was with Altavista before I switched to Google) that allowed you to search for words that we
by JacobAldridge 16y ago
I vaguely recall that there used to be a feature (and possibly this was with Altavista before I switched to Google) that allowed you to search for words that were close together. So instead of trying ten different permutations of "like jb hifi in London" I would enter the keywords, and various forms "jb hifi type stores in London", "jb hifi stores in central London" etc would be returned. Or am I dreaming?
- gojomo 16y agoThe wildcard operator – * – is close to what you want: http://www.googleguide.com/wildcard_operator.html http://www.googleguide.com/wildcard_operator.html UPDATE: and someone just posted about the AROUND() operator, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1983930 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1983930
- JacobAldridge 16y agoBrilliant - you have my * gratitude.