User talk:Belasted/Archives/2009/January

Searching Wikipedia for specific words
I noticed your question at the help desk, and though it's resolved, I just wanted to mentionm since no one else had, that Google is a much more robust search engine for searching Wikipedia than is Wilkipedia's own search function. Just place in the Google search field: site:en.wikipedia.org to restrict its search to Wikipedia. Note that for the example search of calcium, Google finds thousands of more Wikipedia pages using the term than does Wikipedia's weak search engine. You can restrict such searches much easier as well. For example, if you want to search only particular spaces, for example, templates, you would use the restriction site:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/template: and all this can be coupled with restrictors like: minus signs before words you want the search to exclude, as well as using the OR magic word. Cheers.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 21:50, 24 January 2009 (UTC)