You can use “wildcard” characters to throw a broader search net in most search engines and directories. These wildcard characters include *, #, and ? with the asterisk being the most common. Use wildcards when you want to broaden your search. For example, if you are looking for sites that discuss trucking, don’t search for the truck, search for truck*. This will return pages that contain the word “truck” as well as pages that contain “trucks”, “trucking”, “truck enthusiasts”, “trucking industry”, and so on. The more narrowed down you can get your Web searches from the beginning, the more successful your Web search usually will be. For example, if you were searching for “coffee”, you’d get way more results back than you could use; however, if you narrowed that down to “roasted Arabica coffee in Detroit Michigan”, you’d be more successful.