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wildcard search
A website that adds the removed wildcard functionality of search engines | |
For some reason (too hard on the servers?) wildcard search has been removed from most search engines.
I had a glimpse of this fantastic article on some new type of economy titled *econ, but wasted hours reading wikipedia and searching for alternative economies, and still cannot find it!
This HB
idea is to make a website that returns the wildcard search. Probably can be done as a secondary search on results from a primary search engine.
Might be slow, but definitely useful.
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I really doubt any search engine with a decent sized database has that feature...its too computationally expensive. |
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Definition of Wildcard search
DW and OLAP terms |
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The use of placeholders (such as * or ?) to perform a search for data in a table or field. For example, searching the Last Name field in a database using Smith*, could result in finding all records in which the last name starts with Smith, including Smith, Smithson, Smithlin, and so forth. |
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In case you'd never heard the term before.
Not that I haven't heard the term before.
tsh
Just, y'know...
... in case You hadn't. |
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None of the present day search engines have this anymore. Especially not google which evolved from a meta search as far as I remember. They do have wildcard WORD replacement but not for letters. eg. "A * for your thought". |
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Yes, the reason is the computation price, but thats exactly my idea: Some people are willing to give the search engine some time, as long as they get the answer. |
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Besides, once you have an indexed search db, its not really that complicated. Especially if you are searching for a quoted string (Exact match and not combinatorial). And most of this search functionality (eg regex) already exists for programmers. |
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BTW, does anybody have any suggestions for my *econ quest? Some new type of economy where its not forced communism, but still is fair and gets people to share and contribute, as opposed to market (extreme capitalist) economy. |
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Parecon (found via Wikipedia: Economic Systems > List of ..)? |
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