I'm led to believe that adding characters to search terms in a variety of places can make the search 'better'.
I can't find anything online... but then I obviously need to improve my searches!
I thought putting + before a search made it a precise search, and # at the start/end meant 'this could be be anything'
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Think you might need a *
Hi there
You dont say where you are searching. Im no expert but search engines are so good these days I havent found the need for more than Key words. Going from memory only though, I thought it was an asterix not a hash.
General
Think a search of *valuation* would find revaluation but a search of valuation would find valuation but havent used it for ages.
Don't do it at work!!!!!
Yeah, that's blocked on my work computer.
Note to self, never use the "I'm feeling lucky" button at work...
Regex
Most search utilities worth their salt use regular expressions to set sort criteria. May I suggest the wikipedia page on this subject:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression
You might want to look at the posix and metacharacter sections towards the bottom.