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  2. Help:Searching from a web browser - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Searching_from_a_web...

    To set Wikipedia as the default search engine: Click the hamburger menu and go to the 'Options' menu. In the options menu, click on 'Search'. To set Wikipedia as the default search engine, click on the dropdown menu under "Default Search Engine" and select Wikipedia. To trigger the keyword search: Type the '@' key into the search bar.

  3. Wikipedia:Database download - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

    Start downloading a Wikipedia database dump file such as an English Wikipedia dump. It is best to use a download manager such as GetRight so you can resume downloading the file even if your computer crashes or is shut down during the download. Download XAMPPLITE from (you must get the 1.5.0 version for it to work). Make sure to pick the file ...

  4. List of search engines - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines

    Cross-platform open-source desktop search engine. Unmaintained since 2011-06-02 [9]. LGPL v2 [10] Terrier Search Engine: Linux, Mac OS X, Unix: Desktop search for Windows, Mac OS X (Tiger), Unix/Linux. MPL v1.1 [11] Tracker: Linux, Unix: Open-source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux GPL v2 [12] Tropes Zoom: Windows: Semantic Search Engine (no ...

  5. Help:Searching - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Searching

    several external search engines' views of Wikipedia. The search results page will then have a pull down list to the left of its search box, offering your choice as, say, a modification of a word or phrase search, or a page ranking refinement. Go to Preferences → Gadgets Appearance, and see "Add a selector to the Wikipedia search page allowing ...

  6. Wikipedia : Tools/Alternative browsing

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    Available for Android, Linux, iOS, Mac OS X, Windows. GoldenDict - multiplatform dictionary browser with native support for Wikipedia, Wiktionary, the Wikimedia projects, and any MediaWiki-based website. (Experimental Kiwix zim support is in git master.) Distracted Reader – Browser extension for Firefox and Chrome for fast search and exploration.

  7. Search engine - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine

    A search engine maintains the following processes in near real time: [34] Web crawling; Indexing; Searching [35] Web search engines get their information by web crawling from site to site. The "spider" checks for the standard filename robots.txt, addressed to it. The robots.txt file contains directives for search spiders, telling it which pages ...

  8. Wikipedia:External search engines - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:External_search...

    In general, external search engines are faster than a Wikipedia search. However, because the search engine's cache is based on when the site was indexed, the search may not return newly created pages. Similarly, the search engine's cached version of the page will not be as up-to-date as the link to Wikipedia itself.

  9. Download the addon from its download page. Double-click the downloaded setup file and follow the on-screen instructions. The addon is installed. Usage. In Internet Explorer, type the search terms in the searchbox beside the address bar. Select the language Wikipedia you'd like to search and click the search button (the magnifying glass icon).