Sometimes, Your Wildcard May Not Be “Wild” Enough: eDiscovery Best Practices
On the very first day we launched this blog nearly six years ago, one of our first blog posts was called “Don’t Get ‘Wild’ with Wildcards” where we showed how a poorly constructed wildcard of “min*” to retrieve variations like “mine”, “mines” and “mining” actually retrieved over 300,000 files with hits because there are 269 words in the English language that begin with the letters “min” (such as words like “mink”, “mind”, “mint” and “minion”). Sometimes, though, you have the opposite problem – your wildcard isn’t “wild” enough.
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