{"id":239,"date":"2005-01-22T20:50:21","date_gmt":"2005-01-23T01:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/server97.snhdns.com\/~ravik\/wp\/?p=239"},"modified":"2005-01-22T20:50:21","modified_gmt":"2005-01-23T01:50:21","slug":"i-learnt-something-about-google-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200501\/i-learnt-something-about-google-today\/","title":{"rendered":"I learnt something about google today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I <a href=\"http:\/\/ravikiran.com\/archives\/000256.htm\">talked<\/a> of the quote being ungoogleable, I wasn&#8217;t talking of the technical difficulty of composing the query in google. I was talking of the fact that there are so many versions of the quote available. Nonetheless, a helpful reader Ramesh R has given me the information that google accepts the wildcard *. So you can search for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?sourceid=navclient&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;rls=GGLB,GGLB:1970-01,GGLB:en&#038;q=%22What+do+they+know+of+%2A+who+only+%2A+know%22\">&#8220;What do they know of * who only * know&#8221;<\/a> Neat no?<\/p>\n<p>Here is his mail with some interesting historical information:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is in reference to your post on the Google search  difficulty with &#8220;what do they know about X&#8230;&#8221; &#8230; Anyway, such a phrase is still searchable by Google if you use stop  words. Previously Google ignored certain words like the,  what, who&#8230; (terming them as stop word) and ignoring them in  the search. The consequence was that you could use stop words  as a placeholder for any words and do proximity searches.  Later on Google removed the stop words but they left the  wild-card character * which works the same way. So you can  search for that quote by using &#8220;what do they know of * who  only * know&#8221;. Whether you trace the quote with this is a  different issue but you might want to refer a small search\t  tutorial that we use at  <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.quoteland.com\/1\/OpenTopic?a=tpc&#038;s=586192041&#038;f=45 11947895&#038;m=5661977023&#038;r=8881961675\">http:\/\/forum.quoteland.com\/1\/OpenTopic?a=tpc&#038;s=586192041&#038;f=45 11947895&#038;m=5661977023&#038;r=8881961675<\/a> &#8230; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks Ramesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I talked of the quote being ungoogleable, I wasn&#8217;t talking of the technical difficulty of composing the query in google. I was talking of the fact that there are so many versions of the quote available. Nonetheless, a helpful reader Ramesh R has given me the information that google accepts the wildcard *. So [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}