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Default search function using wildcard

using excel 2003. i wish to identify the when text from one cell is repeated
in another cell
A2 Mrs Brown, 1 sample road, blurb city.
B2 1 sample road
C2 (contains my function to return a value)

i've tried to used search with a wildcard but it's not working
=search(A2*,B2) help says you can use wildcards but it doesn't give an
example so i guessed. can anyone help?