In my experience, Wikipedia has been relegated lower and lower in search results.
So much so that I now specifically use their search tool rather than go through google just in case some interesting thing pops up.
So much so that I now specifically use their search tool rather than go through google just in case some interesting thing pops up.
I wish by each search result there was a button that said “banish this domain to oblivion, I never want to see it again.”
You could improve search really fast that way if you still cared about things like that.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...
It's silly that it's necessary to create separate bookmark for this, though. Native search engines, surprisingly, don't support keywords there.
I feel silly adding bookmarks for the things I already have in search engine list.
Check it out, because it sounds like it might start to match your workflow: https://duckduckgo.com/bang?q=
Google used to put the Wiki article right at the top of the results list. It virtually never does that anymore. This is what's bullshit.
The point of a good search engine is that it is supposed to conglomerate good results, relevant results - let's say I'm looking up 'Phillip J. Fry' from 'Futurama', but I still want wiki information. Wikipedia won't even spellcheck for you if you don't know how to spell something correctly, like a city name.
If I use a search engine, I'll get this Wikipedia result: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_J._Fry
But I will also get the far more informative Futurama-wiki result: https://futurama.fandom.com/wiki/Philip_J._Fry
Wikipedia is not a search engine. Although, at this point, Google is barely one, so plastered with sponsored results it can be hard to find the result you're looking for, and with this change, I've finally made the long-needed jump to DuckDuckGo.
Yes, it's time to 'stop the fucking bullshit', and save all our mental states - searching Wiki isn't going to solve that - but not using Google can help. ;)
Comparing a search engine to wikipedia search is like comparing a search engine to a local file search.
If you're looking for a specific driver on your computer that you know the exact spelling and version number of, a local file search will help you find that. A search engine will return many results with download links as well as potentially other drivers, or other versions of drivers for your product - and will generally forgive you if you misspell something.
Do you find their search tool more effective than appending "wikipedia" to your Google search?
I also use hoogle a lot for work so I'm used to switching search tool.