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Often I'm looking for a Wikipedia page, and it seems that in the past year or so Wikipedia pages have been moved way down on the first page of search results, e
by allochthon 6y ago
Often I'm looking for a Wikipedia page, and it seems that in the past year or so Wikipedia pages have been moved way down on the first page of search results, especially if the topic is a medical one.
- prepend 6y agoI noticed this too and now suffix any query that I think Wikipedia is best at with “wiki.” This is faster for me that opening Wikipedia and searching.
- cgriswald 6y agoI add “wiki” too, but I made it a keyword search command to use Wikipedia’s search and cut out the middleman altogether.
- cruano 6y agoYou can prefix your search with "!w" on DuckDuckGo, bangs[1] are a neat feature and what actually made me switch [1] https://duckduckgo.com/bang https://duckduckgo.com/bang
- gxqoz 6y agoThis is effectively the same as the "wiki [query]" search shortcut you can add to a browser. This is useful, but there are also situations where I want to get to the search engine's results page but weighted towards the wiki content. Wikipedia search will always send you to the page for an exact match. There are times where I want to see the search results instead.
- georgiecasey 6y agoso do i, and you look at related searches and adding wiki is the top one. surely this is a signal to Google?
- Robotbeat 6y agoI just put “Wiki” into the Google search because Wikipedia usually has what I’m looking for.
- SilverRed 6y agoSimilarly I tend to apply "reddit" to searches about products to get to something that it at least somewhat real rather than paid blogspam.