Speaking of Google

[gary price]

For your Google tips and tricks file.

You can use the * (asterisk) as a wildcard in a Google phrase search
For your Google tips and tricks file.


Here are a few examples:

"Lord * * Flies"
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22lord+*+*+flies%22

"Nothing to * * * Itself"
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22nothing+to+*+*+*+itself%22&btnG=Goog
le+Search

"George * Bush"
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22george+*+bush%22&btnG=Google+Search


Perhaps the ability to truncate search terms with Google is not far off?


cheers,
gary

p.s. Kudos to Bill D. for his Google commercialization comments. 100%
agreement here.



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