Wibbler on searching PB comments
Here are some of my tips for searching PB easily
Use quotation marks around phrases like “Morris Dancer” to perform exact searches. and add +site:politicalbetting.com to your query for specificity.
If you are unsure of the exact words you used, use a tilde in front of a search term to extend the search to synonyms (so ~happy will search for happy, content, joyous, etc)
If you know the words you used, but don’t remember the precise details, use a wildcard * character between words you know. This will search for the terms on either side with up to two arbitrary words in the middle. So for example, what*wrought will return results for “What hath God wrought” amongst other such phrases.
Also, every asterisk you use allows two words of leeway. So it**times will cover phrases like “it was the best of times” (although that probably won’t be in the first few hundred results).
Also useful: if a particularly annoying word is cropping up too often in your search results, you can filter out pages that contain it by prefixing it with - (so -hannan will ensure that pages containing the word hannan are not listed in the results).