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A redirect is a special type of page that sends the reader to another page. They are used when there are different names for the same subject. For example, the United Kingdom is often referred to as the "UK". The article on Wikipedia entitled UK is a redirect to the United Kingdom article, as it is the same topic as the United Kingdom article.
If the redirect target is an existing page on English Wikipedia and a reader navigates to the redirect page – by wikilink, the search box, or a URL – the reader is taken directly to the target page. A small notice below the top title indicates that the user arrived via a redirect.
The redirect page makes it unreasonably difficult for users to locate similarly named articles via the search engine. For example, if the user searches for "New Articles", and is redirected to a disambiguation page for "Articles", it would take much longer to get to the newly added articles on Wikipedia. The redirect might cause confusion.
Double redirects are when a link on page A goes to redirect page B, which goes to redirect page C, which points to page D. In that case, when you click the link on page A, the Wikipedia software will display the redirect page C; which isn't what the reader needs. The link on page A or the redirect on page B needs to be changed.
Wikipedia uses a powerful search engine, with a search box on every page. The search box will navigate directly to a given page name upon an exact match. But, you can force it to show you other pages that include your search string by including a tilde character ~ anywhere in the query. The maximum search string is 300 characters long.
Most search engines employ methods to rank the results to provide the "best" results first. How a search engine decides which pages are the best matches, and what order the results should be shown in, varies widely from one engine to another. [35] The methods also change over time as Internet usage changes and new techniques evolve.
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