DuckDuckGo Regex Search
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DuckDuckGo Regex Search
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#3Google does not implement regex search support because they said somewhere that the data storage needed for the index would be huge. And since regex search is used only by a small subset of users, it is not worth the effort.
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#4/a{2,2}b/
Should return aaab right? But im getting some different stuff.
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#5Google does not implement regex search support because they said somewhere that the data storage needed for the index would be huge. And since regex search is used only by a small subset of users, it is not worth the effort.
actually they can support only for some computer-related domains such as stackoverflow etc.
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#6Google does not implement regex search support because they said somewhere that the data storage needed for the index would be huge. And since regex search is used only by a small subset of users, it is not worth the effort.
More likely, regex search has the power only allowed in the paid Google Search API. And Google knows the value of its search data.
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#8Google does not implement regex search support because they said somewhere that the data storage needed for the index would be huge. And since regex search is used only by a small subset of users, it is not worth the effort.
IIRC "security" plays important role here too, because using regexps you can much easier find sensitive data, or to be precise: context (neighborhood) of sensitive data.
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This does not do what you think it does. Take a second to look at the link.
Re: DuckDuckGo Regex Search
#10/a{2,2}b/ Should return aaab right? But im getting some different stuff.
It should be aab.