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[edit] Internal search engines
[edit] Wikimedia-Search
- page name search (main namespace only)
[edit] External search engines
[edit] Google
By following the links below, you can use the Google search engine to search Wikipedia - either all languages, or English-only. Google indexes all namespaces.
If you frequently search via Google, consider installing the Google Toolbar. Using the "search this site" button allows you to quickly search the English version of Wikipedia. The official Google Toolbar is available in versions for Firefox and Internet Explorer.
[edit] How to provide a link to a specific Google Search
Wiki markup allows you to insert links to Google searches by including google: as the prefix for the link. This can sometimes be useful on talk pages. It is done like this:
- [[google:shakespeare]].
Which looks like this:
Note: It is important not to use spaces in the search. To add more parameters to the search, separate them by a plus sign, +. For a phrase search, use a hyphen (minus sign), -, between each word. E.g. to search for "John Milton", use john-milton.
To provide a link to a Wikisource-specific search, include in the google-link +site:en.wikisource.org (no spaces before or after), like this:
- [[google:Shakespeare+site:en.wikisource.org]].
Which looks like this:
To clean up the link so that only the part you want to show is presented, use the pipe, like this:
- [[google:Shakespeare+site:en.wikisource.org|"Shakespeare"]]
Which makes it look like this:
[edit] See also
- m:Help:Searching Mediawiki's help
- Wikipedia:Searching
- Help:Preferences, changing your search result settings
