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by CamperBob2 2939 days ago
Agreed, the loss of "programmer-friendly" features like wildcard and boolean matching is one downside of the progress made in the last couple of decades.

This isn't such a massive problem with Google as it is on specialized search engines like eBay's. A fuzzy search is worse than useless when you're looking for items with very specific names.