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And 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
by quant18 16y ago
And 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.