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August 10, 2005 by nicole wyatt

Google Wildcard searches

Early this month Language Log bemoaned the new weird behaviour of the google wildcard. Now a possible explanation presents itself via the google blog — apparently the wildcard search now features “softer pattern matching”.

Perhaps a note to google requesting our old wildcard back as well — using # for example — is in order.

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