If you want a promotion to appear for a variety of highly similar queries, you can use regular expressions to define your trigger queries. For example:
pizza \d{5,5}will match any 5-digit postal code queries, like "pizza 98102"digital\scameras?will match the queries "digital camera" or "digital cameras".
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$q.Add a promotion using regular expressions
- On the Custom Search home page, click the search engine you want.
- Click Search features, and then click the Promotions tab.
- Click Add.
- Select the Regular expression checkbox.
- In the Queries box, type a query that will trigger the display of your promotion. (Note that queries are not case-sensitive.)
- When you're happy with your changes, click Publish.
Add a promotion using regular expressions
- On the Custom Search home page, click the search engine you want.
- Click Search features, and then click the Promotions tab.
- Click Add.
- Select the Regular expression checkbox.
- In the Queries box, type a query that will trigger the display of your promotion. (Note that queries are not case-sensitive.)
- When you're happy with your changes, click Publish.
If the Regular expression checkbox is selected, Custom Search will treat everything typed in the search box (including commas) as a single regular expression.