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Often I'm looking for a Wikipedia page, and it seems that in the past year or so Wikipedia pages have been moved way down on the first page of search results, especially if the topic is a medical one.

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I noticed this too and now suffix any query that I think Wikipedia is best at with “wiki.”

This is faster for me that opening Wikipedia and searching.

I add “wiki” too, but I made it a keyword search command to use Wikipedia’s search and cut out the middleman altogether.

You can prefix your search with "!w" on DuckDuckGo, bangs[1] are a neat feature and what actually made me switch

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/bang

This is effectively the same as the "wiki [query]" search shortcut you can add to a browser. This is useful, but there are also situations where I want to get to the search engine's results page but weighted towards the wiki content. Wikipedia search will always send you to the page for an exact match. There are times where I want to see the search results instead.

so do i, and you look at related searches and adding wiki is the top one. surely this is a signal to Google?

I just put “Wiki” into the Google search because Wikipedia usually has what I’m looking for.

Similarly I tend to apply "reddit" to searches about products to get to something that it at least somewhat real rather than paid blogspam.

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