[Search-l] Fwd: [Wikia-l] simple new search idea to make the web a better place....

[Balinny]

>     forwarded from the central list to the search list which is more
>     appropriate i think
>
>     mark
>
>     ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>     From: *Stephen Carr* <stephencarr at blueyonder.co.uk
>     <mailto:stephencarr at blueyonder.co.uk>>
>     Date: Dec 21, 2007 3:17 PM
>     Subject: [Wikia-l] simple new search idea to make the web a better
>     place....
>     To: wikia-l at wikia.com <mailto:wikia-l at wikia.com>
>
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     I'm new to the mailing list and arrived here after an email from
>     Jimmy Wales in response to an email I sent him, I had an idea some
>     time ago that I believe would help people when using a search
>     engine.  The idea is very simple, it's a wild card search facility
>     for URL's, here is an example 
>
>     Go to Google and type www.cti*.com <http://www.cti*.com/> because
>     you want all the URL's that start with "cti" and end in ".com" if
>     you look at the actual URL's not all and in fact most do not start
>     with "www.cti <http://www.cti/>" or end in ".com" !!
>      
>
>     I first discovered this when I wanted to find a website that I had
>     forgotten the name for and thought that simply by using wildcards
>     Google would find it, I was amazed it didn't!
>
>     Think of all the people that see adverts in magazines and on
>     posters with web addresses, when they get home they can only
>     remember the first few characters of the address! Also this search
>     could be combined with other words to filter even further e.g. 
>
>     www.cti*.com <http://www.cti*.com/> car sales
>
>     Would only bring URL's starting in "cti" ending in ".com" and
>     having car sales in the page somewhere. The search should adhere
>     to the normal wildcard filtering like in good old DOS 
>
>     Well that's about it, all I ask is you credit me properly and ask
>     me before using this idea, I will always say yes unless it's used
>     is unethical, I just would love to know where it's going to be
>     used, maybe one day even do a Wiki about me :o).
>
>     Regards
>
>     Stephen Carr
>
How would you restrict that for being a domain? You could be looking for 
pages *containing* cti*.com
And when you start deeping things, it's pretty much just like current 
engines. You can do it but it's not easy to know how to:

http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl:www.cti+inurl:.com+car+sales&filter=0