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[Stephen Carr]

Hi again,
 
Well I’m still not sure how to reply to a thread so here I have cut and
paste one reply to my request with my answers, I still have not seen a good
reason for not having a DOMAIN name (NOT URL) wildcard search (along with
extra search words if possible) is this really that bad an idea? Am I the
only one that thinks wildcards will be a GREAT help finding what your
looking is some instances?
 
Forget all the techno jargon, all you need do if the user types HYPERLINK
"http://www.help*.com/"www.help*.com is first return a list of ONLY those
top level domains that do not fit this criteria then continue and apply any
standard search parameter!
 
Thanks
 
P.S. Would also love it if anyone can tell me how to reply to a thread
instead of keep creating another! 
 
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
> 
>  
> 
> Use of wildcards for domain name searching is not available currently
> 
> I would use it as it would help me
> 
> I believe it will get more and more use over time as more obscure domain 
> names appear
> 
> 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.
 
        That’s right, just like if I was in a folder on my machines with
millions of files starting with S and did a wildcard search like s*.*
        It should bring back millions just like when I type “test” in google
it requires 900,000
 
> This could be expanded to all sorts like email addresses searching and 
> many more
 
This would raise spam and privacy issues.
        If an email address is published then it’s fair game as it is now,
however I would not be bothered if it was only domain name wildcard
searching and nothing else
 
 
> 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.
 
Not sure what ur trying to say here?
 
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).
 
Not sure you get the gist of what I’m proposing, I’m not interested in
country code’s .co.uk just wildcard searching on do
 
Regards...jmcc

            


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