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How To Do A Wildcard Search

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Many search engines support a wildcard search, where you can substitute the asterisk sign for a word within a key phrase. Here's how it works in Google:

three*mice will bring you back three blind mice, three button wheel mouse (Google seems to search for variations on the last word you use), three button mice, etc.

Works in Yahoo, Ask, A9,MSN Search, andAOL Search.

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