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Google tactic question: How many of you find wiki entries by googling "[your search term] wiki"? based on google's autocomplete, seems to be common. -- nm

Posted by loosilu (aka loosilu2) Jan 7 '11, 07:16

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i usually just search. Wiki is normally first or second, but then I get all the other hits as well -- nm - Beaker Jan 7, 07:22 2
- this -- nm - Strongbad Jan 7, 07:33
- this. -- nm - Jim Jan 7, 07:23
I just type "wp [search term]" into the Firefox address bar and it takes me right there. -- nm - Ender Jan 7, 07:22 2
- my tag is "wiki" instead of "wp," but otherwise, this. -- nm - JaxSean Jan 7, 07:30 1
  - I created a button on my toolbar that picks up hilighted content and does a wikipedia search of it - decline Jan 7, 07:34
i do it all the time (but i generally put the wiki first). -- nm - Andie Jan 7, 07:19
I search from the wikipedia homepage directly. -- nm - znufrii Jan 7, 07:18 2
- I do it in google because there are wikis other than wikipedia for some topics. -- nm - loosilu Jan 7, 07:21 1
  - fair enough, I'm usually not looking for that specialized a level of information. -- nm - znufrii Jan 7, 07:32
wikipedia [search term] -- nm - Beryllium (iPhone) Jan 7, 07:17 1
- you can save those five letters. :) -- nm - loosilu Jan 7, 07:22

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