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As someone in medicine, this drive me up the wall. I don't want to go to uptodate every time I have a question and want the basics of a disease or drug. Where Wikipedia fits my requirements perfectly, Google constantly feeds me nonsense WebMD, blogs, and hospital systems. Now, whenever I search for anything medically related I add wiki at the end.

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Set Duckduckgo as your default search engine and add "!w" anywhere into your search query. This will take you directly to the corresponding wiki article. It is a breeze to actually work with a search engine instead of against it!

There are >10k of these bangs, so I'm pretty sure you can even use this tool to directly search at other medicine related sites and portals (check here https://duckduckgo.com/bang) if necessary .

I feel like more people would have better search experiences if they knew about/used custom search. For example for wikipedia I've got my browsers set up so I can type "wiki <search term> and have that powered by wikipedia; why hit google at all. You can set up the same thing for anything else that implements the open search standard (youtube is the other one i use regularly). To me searching the web for a wiki page seems pretty irrelevant.

Instructions for setting up wikipedia's : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Searching_from_a_web_brow...

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