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pkamb on Feb 15, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google Search Is Dying

It's much easier to type "searchterm" or "searchterm wiki" in your web browser address bar and then click through to the Wikipedia result than it is to first navigate to every individual site and use their non-standard search bar.

MiddleEndian on Feb 15, 2022 | [–]

I just have https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=%s&title=Special... bookmarked with the keyboard shortcut `w`

So `w fish` will produce `https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=fish&title=Speci...` which auto-forwards to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish

CodeGlitch on Feb 15, 2022 | [–]

By my calculations it's one less click. Is that going to save you that much in your lifetime to get you better* results?

*better = more predictable in my case

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