Hi All,
Further to our earlier discussions about the Google asterisk and the
missing documents, I sent off a report to Google about the problem and I
have now received a response from Google.
It appears that the use of an asterisk within a phrase to represent a
single word has been discontinued. Now you use it between words without
quote marks and it stands in for one or more words. Additionally you can
use it after a series of words to fill in the blanks for a query that
corresponds to a question. They give the example 'the parachute was
invented by *'
They confirm that searches sometimes return "erroneous" estimates for
the number of results for a search, which we all knew already. They do
not, though, explain why phenol * extraction still only displays 1-2 of
471,000!
Hey-ho
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