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I type "en<tab>" and then enter my query (in Chrome, at least). Doesn't get much better than that.

However, if I didn't have that feature, I'd probably use Google anyway. Tweaking the CSS won't change that. They'd really have to make Wikipedia's search kick ass in some other way.

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Does Chrome's search give you realtime term completion? If you start typing in the search box on Wikipedia, it will give you suggestions that are the titles of articles. It's a substantial usability improvement over just typing something, since it gives you the opportunity to skip directly to a page more often, rather than going through the vigorously mediocre search results page.

Of course it does.

Huh. Maybe I need to update Chrome, because it's not working for me. Weird.

EDIT: It was just a hiccup when I checked; the problem is gone now. Thank you for pointing that out; from now on I'll use this method to search Wikipedia.

To echo DeBuche, yes, it does.

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