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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. 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 ...

  4. Wikipedia:External search engines - Wikipedia

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    Also, when returning Wikipedia articles in a regular search, mirrors and forks of Wikipedia content frequently rank higher than the actual Wikipedia articles because of search engine optimization techniques. These issues may be less of a problem when using certain search engines that process Wikipedia differently: Google tends to include ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. Help:URL - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:URL

    Like all pages on the World Wide Web, the pages delivered by Wikimedia's servers have URLs to identify them. These are the addresses that appear in your browser's address bar when you view a page.

  8. Comparison of search engines - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_search_engines

    The first table lists the company behind the engine, volume and ad support and identifies the nature of the software being used as free software or proprietary software. The second and third table lists internet privacy aspects along with other technical parameters, such as whether the engine provides personalization (alternatively viewed as a ...

  9. Search/Retrieve via URL - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search/Retrieve_via_URL

    Search/Retrieve via URL (SRU) is a standard search protocol for Internet search queries, utilizing Contextual Query Language (CQL), a standard query syntax for representing queries. SRU, along with the related Search/Retrieve via Web (SRW) service, were created by as part of the ZING (Z39.50 International: Next Generation) initiative as ...