[Search-l] Wildcard URL/Domain name searching

[John McCormac]

Stephen Carr wrote:
> Well not sure how to move this along any further or if anyone is 
> remotely interested in getting this feature included in the Wiki-Search 
> engine
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> All I do now is the following
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> Use of wildcards for domain name searching is not available currently
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> I would use it as it would help me
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> I believe it will get more and more use over time as more obscure domain 
> names appear
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> The addition of wildcards and phrase searching really is a powerful filter

The danger is that someone will decide to search for something like 
'm*.com' or 's*.com' and end up with millions of results.

> This could be expanded to all sorts like email addresses searching and 
> many more

This would raise spam and privacy issues.

> If anyone wants to reply go to my website and email me, forgot what it’s 
> name is but it had “card” near beginning, a “-“ in middle and ended in 
> “.co.uk”, but I’m sure you will find it using “inurl:card inurl:- 
> inurl:.co.uk” as Google only returns 325,000 possibilities  :o)

I only see 138 possibilities here for 'card-*.co.uk' and 364 for 
'card*-*.co.uk' and  but that's on a limited list of about 3.77M .co.uk 
domains used for hoster stats tracking and comparison with 
com/net/org/biz/info/eu/mobi/ie.

The problem with .co.uk and many other country code TLDs in Europe is 
that the registries do not permit zone file access. Thus websites would 
only appear if they are linked from others (the fundamental flaw of a 
link based approach to search).

Regards...jmcc
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