carrot said:
...using wildcards (*) works almost, but not quite.
EDIT: Carrot, I just realized what you meant after I posted. You are absolutely right. I have tried that and given up because of the clunkyness, too. :EDIT
The asterisk is undocumented for Google but only works for
whole words.
Back when Google limited search keywords to just ten words you could use asterisks to break the limit, as they weren't counted.
"* spy who came * from * cold" "John le Carré"
The above is a dopey example but it did get around the old ten word limit. I think Google has upped the keyword limit to
36 now.
These days I usually just use asterisks to
highlight what I'm searching for in the results page. If it's simple enough and
easy enough to see I won't have to go to the actual page listed in the results. Try the phrase search below.
"the boiling point of water is * * *"
It will list the answers in Fahrenheit and Celsius without ever leaving the results page. The three asterisks at the end of the query will insure that the answer(s) you're looking for will be in
bold so they'll be easy to find quickly.
