> Google have admitted that they don't bother with keywords meta anymore.

Yep, right here:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-does-not-use-keywords-meta-tag.html

And it's commonly believed that none of the major search engines have
bothered about the keywords meta tag for a number of years.

> I've actually never seen anybody use wildcards before or even heard of such a
> thing until now.  In the early days of search engines there were a lot of
> proprietary behaviour going on so maybe the developer picked up on
> something like that.  Alternatively it could be something that their CMS
> does for it's own benefit.  Or, maybe the developer just has no clue.

Sounds like the latter to me :)

Regards,
Chris

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