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Playing the Wildcard

In many search applications an asterisk * serves as a wild card and can mean anything. For example, searching for ‘mas*’ would return results for mask, mash and masculine, amond others. Try experimenting with wild cards to increase the power of your searches.

Asterisk

Use an asterisk (*) in your search criteria to indicate something unknown. Example: search* will return results based on searching, searches, searcher, search engine and so on, as well as those for simply search.

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