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Programming Language PopularityProgramming Language PopularityPosted Sep 27, 2004 22:29 UTC (Mon) by hppnq (subscriber, #14462)In reply to: Programming Language Popularity by hppnq Parent article: Programming Language Popularity Since we're on the subject, I've always found it a bit strange that one cannot get partial word hits through the use of wildcards. For instance, Google doesn't seem to support e.g. "one two *ree" (try it, you get a submarine sonar operator's manual, not what you would expect. ;-). Does anyone know why this is, or am I missing something? (It does support wildcards for words though, so "one * three" returns exactly what you'd expect -- plus a nice calculator. ;-)
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Programming Language Popularity Posted Sep 27, 2004 22:35 UTC (Mon) by Ross (subscriber, #4065) [Link] Search engines used to support regular expressions. They later switchedto the "AND", "+", and "-" syntax to make things easier for users. I also believe that their distributed searching engines are happier this way so they would have trouble switching back if they wanted.
Programming Language Popularity Posted Sep 28, 2004 0:08 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] You need more horsepower for in-word wildcards and very few users really want them so it was discarded in favor of whole words search and wildcards for words.
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