Hi Caleb,

One possibility is to search using * as a placeholder which matches
any word. For example:

bacon * eggs

http://www.google.com/search?q=bacon+*+eggs

Which requests results with one word between the two specific words.
Here's an example requesting results with any two words between the
terms:

bacon * * eggs

http://www.google.com/search?q=bacon+*+*+eggs

Happy coding,

Jeff

On Dec 7, 12:35 pm, Caleb <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am creating a search that returns page results where word A is
> within n words of word B. I've found a regular expression that will do
> this but I haven't found any support in the Google search for this.
>
> Is there any simple way to accomplish this search?
>
> my ideas were:
> 1) Use a regular expression (Google doesn't seem to support this
> [other than in code search])
> 2) use a NEAR operator. (Google doesn't seem to support this either.)
> 3) Parse each web-page result individually to match the regular
> expression.
>
> I'd prefer using option 1 or 2 if there's a way to implement either of
> those in the Google API.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?
>
> Thanks!

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