Will Google implement the ability to search with regular expressions?

Will Google offer the feature to search with reg exp? When, or why not? I feel that sometimes you really want to be able to write very specific search queries where the normal operators and operands aren't enough. Jimmy @Feldon Wirsborg, Stockholm, Sweden

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[Micha Bartholomé]

Why not?? Please!

[FabricatedLife]

Not to mention being unable to search case-sensitive

[nullzero89]

It could be a paid option, with payment proportional to computing power usage. Just like cloud computing.

And no Google Ads. :)

[Amr Ibrahim]

I would definitely use regexp in searches...

[boblefest]

You'd think the people at google knew youtube good enough to disable comments.

[András Rápli]

Wake up! You don't have to build anything. The potential regex users is "vanishingly small", so why not allow them to do it? There's no more than 1 more line to be written - I'm pretty sure. Almost every programming language supports regex.

I'm curious, how many of the subpages match to a regular expression under my domain among the sites indexed by Google. I won't count them one by one -.-

[DrPokiaka]

Saying it's not worth it is just wrong.. If only a small number of people want it like he said, it's only because the rest aren't aware what it is. If they were, I'm pretty sure everybody would want to learn how and it would be used constantly.

[Thanatermesis]

NOT WORTH !?!?!?!?!?!

OMG... that's a good reason for write an open-source version of google...

[mRcellFizH]

will google chrome?

[David Adler]

should make a ui for search with regular expression... then people would use it