Just wanted to get the feedback of the community of potential disruptive application of a regular expression based search engine before offering my prof. to start researching the subject.
There are lots of times that I wish that I could use the wildcard in Google inside word tokens instead of just between words in a multiword string, i.e. search on googl* to get googlefight and googling as well as the expected. It could be a powerful way of capturing a set of alternatives easily. But its utility is limited for search if the user needs to know the order of tokens in the search (i.e. searching on a single regex globally on the rendered page).
I'd like to see a regular search engine interface (tokens, strings of tokens, and an exception operator) with the ability to make any token in it a regex by surrounding it with a specific marker, like bang or slash.
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 14.8 ms ] threadI'd like to see a regular search engine interface (tokens, strings of tokens, and an exception operator) with the ability to make any token in it a regex by surrounding it with a specific marker, like bang or slash.