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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.
Insource search is a handy tool that lets you find specific terms or regex patterns across all Wikimedia wikis. It generates a list of pages containing those terms, making it super useful for tasks like AWB/JWB and other search-related activities.
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.
To get Wikipedia search results while on any web page, you can temporarily set your browser's (web-based) search box to interface the Wikipedia search engine and land on Wikipedia's search results page. This trick removes the need to first navigate to Wikipedia from a web page, and then do the search or navigation. It is a temporary change, and ...
The link Special:Search, which can be inserted onto user pages or project pages, for example, also leads to the search page. While the entire contents of the search page is included in the search results page, it is a distinct page. User scripts might be designed to work on the search results page but not the search page, for example.
The Wikipedia List of online newspaper archives – Very extensive and useful list of websites to find sources at; The Wikipedia List of free online resources page – provides many resources for source searching; The Wikipedia List of search engines article – provides a list of additional search engines that can be utilized.
Wikipedia:Tools/Browser tools/cross-browser/Search Wikipedia for highlighted text; Wikipedia:Tools/Browser tools/Microsoft Internet Explorer/Searchbox on your desktop; Wikipedia:Tools/Browser tools/Microsoft Internet Explorer/URL shortcut; Wikipedia:Tools/Browser tools/Mozilla Firefox/Plugin: Highlight searching
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