untangling_the_web

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Google Wildcard. Google has tinkered with its wildcard and it is more useful but still
woefully inadequate. The Google wildcard (*) can only be used to replace a term or
terms in a query. It cannot be used to truncate search terms, e.g., [child*] to find
children, childhood, etc., and it cannot be used to find alternate spellings of terms,
e.g., [kazak*stan]. That being said, the Google wildcard is not useless. The wildcard
search is very good at helping you do "fill in the blank" searches, and it works great
not only in English but in other languages as well. Here are a few examples of "fill in
the blank" searches using the wildcard (there is no need to capitalize because
Google ignores uppercase):
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