The reason Google has not implemented this is because someone would just be able to search for "*" (without quotes) and pull up every page in the Google Search database.
-Timothy On Dec 24, 2007 7:35 AM, Janek Kozicki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stephen Carr said: (by the date of Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:17:41 -0000) > > > <snip regexp searches> > > > > HYPERLINK "http://www.cti*.com/"www.cti*.com car sales > > > Well that's about it, all I ask is you credit me properly and ask me before > > using this idea > > LOL. I've send this idea to google staff 2 years ago. They still > hadn't done that - the only explanation I can came up with - this is > darn too difficult. They have no idea how to do this. > > > Original Message: > ------------------------ > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: regexp search > Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 23:58:17 +0100 (CET) > > I want to ask if you are considering to add (and when) regexp searches? > > Like this calculator feature, you know - I type into search field 2+2 and > I got an answer from the calculator. So I type a regexp expression and I > got a result from regexp search. It is sometimes boring to try all > possible combinations/variations of a single word that can be simply > expressed using regexp expression. > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [#20077835] regexp search > Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 18:02:32 -0800 > User-Agent: Neotonic Trakken/2.13.3 > > Hi Janek, > > Thank you for your note. As you know, we don't currently offer a regexp > feature. We appreciate your feedback about the usefulness of this feature, > and we'll keep it in mind as we work to improve Google. > > Regards, > The Google Team > > > -- > Janek Kozicki | > _______________________________________________ > Wikia-l mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikia-l mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l
