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When searching google for wikipedia a wikipedia searchfield is now first result
- quant18 16y agoAnd now they seem to be automatically installing new "search engines" for you in Chrome, with the default keyword as the name of the website. So now, if I type "site:en.wikipedia.org blah" into my Chrome addressbar, it automatically redirects me to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=blah&go=Go http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=blah&..., instead of sending the query "site:en.wikipedia.org blah" to Google. You can remove this in "Options->Basics->Default search->Manage". But still, I found this seriously irritating for three reasons: 1. Wikipedia made the (IMO quite sensible) decision to enable "noindex" in talk pages, deletion debates, etc. to prevent random Google surfers from accidentally running across all the libelous/embarassing content and other crap that ends up in project space. Now that stuff becomes more widely exposed agian. 2. I want to search for occurrences of the word/phrase "blah" on Wikipedia, not go straight to page "blah". "Blah" may be a phrase with some meaning, but the Wikipedia page "blah" may be about some idiot garage band or website who chose it as a catchy name for themselves --- and since "Wikipedia is not a dictionary", that page won't have any information about the actual phrase "blah" I'm looking for. 3. I plain old don't like the Wikipedia search interface.