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I'm curious, if you're mostly looking for a wikipedia page, why aren't you using wikipedia's search feature?

• yCombLinks 3y ago
  I always just new tab -> type. Navigating to wikipedia first is a drag.
  • teddyh 3y ago
    I suggest that you change your browser’s default search engine to be Wikipedia.
    • cosmojg 3y ago
      Ooh, I like this idea. Do you do this? How's your experience so far?
      • teddyh 3y ago
        No, I’ve turned off the search functionality of the address bar. Whan I want to search, I use a bookmark to go to a search site, and use that.
• gcanyon 3y ago
  Multiple reasons: 1. I don't necessarily know I'm looking for a wikipedia page. For example it turns out there's a Bogart-Bacall syndrome -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogart%E2%80%93Bacall_syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogart%E2%80%93Bacall_syndrome -- that would actually be a false positive, but it's definitely not the first time I've found there are interesting wikipedia pages related to the thing I'm searching for. 2. In general, wikipedia's search is worse than google's -- meaning that if I don't know the exact name of the relevant topic, a google search for <topic> "wikipedia" is more likely to hit the right page than a search in wikipedia itself. 3. Opening wikipedia first is more work than typing bogart bacall wikipedia in by browser's search bar.