Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Use Google Search to Search Wikipedia

There are some very helpful tricks and shortcuts anywhere on the Internet how to search with a Google search effectively. It´s quite common, I won´t mention it. But how can we search Wikipedia? Let´s explore.

You could use the Wikipedia's official search engine on the navigation menu. I never do it in this way. The interested fact is that we can do it without opening the Wiki´s page. You type the recommended term "site:wikipedia.org" anywhere into your Google search. But it is so long, very long! There is a range of other options like searching with wiki.com or Google Desktop Search and many others, too.

I like the following simple wonderful trick which I have learned from the frequent searching. It´s enough to type the term “wiki en” anywhere into your Google search. For example, I´m searching some information about Vienna´s metro or Ceasar´s Cipher in English:

vienna metro wiki en
ceasar cipher wiki en

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It works sufficiently. So play with it :)

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