forwarded from the central list to the search list which is more appropriate i think<br><br>mark<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Stephen Carr</b>
<<a href="mailto:stephencarr@blueyonder.co.uk">stephencarr@blueyonder.co.uk</a>><br>Date: Dec 21, 2007 3:17 PM<br>Subject: [Wikia-l] simple new search idea to make the web a better place....<br>To: <a href="mailto:wikia-l@wikia.com">
wikia-l@wikia.com</a><br><br><br>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Hi all,</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">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</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Go to Google and type <a href="http://www.cti*.com/" target="_blank">www.cti*.com</a>
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 "<a href="http://www.cti/" target="_blank">www.cti</a>" or
end in ".com" !!</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">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! </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">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.</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.cti*.com/" target="_blank">www.cti*.com</a> car
sales </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">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 </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">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).</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Regards</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Stephen Carr</span></font></p>
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