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Author Topic: add Wikipedia to the alias search  (Read 7,539 times)

masu

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add Wikipedia to the alias search
« on: March 18, 2007, 08:36 PM »
add Wikipedia to the alias search
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Re: add Wikipedia to the alias search
« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2007, 09:12 PM »
of course we should.. i thought i had already.. bad me.
will add it to todo list.

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Re: add Wikipedia to the alias search
« Reply #2 on: March 18, 2007, 09:18 PM »
great thanks
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Re: add Wikipedia to the alias search
« Reply #3 on: March 19, 2007, 06:22 AM »
in the meantime, try this:
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Wikipedia $$1 |http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=$$1

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Re: add Wikipedia to the alias search
« Reply #4 on: March 19, 2007, 11:14 AM »
in the meantime, try this:
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Wikipedia $$1 |http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=$$1

Or even better:

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Wikiseek $$1 |http://www.wikiseek.com/results.php?q=$$1

A search engine that searches Wikipedia *and* the pages it links to
If you don't see how it can fail -
you haven't understood it properly.

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Re: add Wikipedia to the alias search
« Reply #5 on: March 20, 2007, 01:27 AM »
good find, JennyB.. :Thmbsup: will come in handy..

http://www.wikiseek.com
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