Wikipedia:Tip of the day/August 7, 2006

How to link to a Google Search

Links to Google searches can be useful on talk pages and sometimes in the external links sections of articles. Simply include google: as the prefix for the link, like this:  Tipster , which creates a link that looks like this: Tipster.

Important: Do not use spaces in the search. Instead...

For phrases, use a hyphen ( - ) between each word. For example, to search for "Tip of the day", use Tip-of-the-day.

To add more parameters to the search, separate them by a plus sign ( + ). For example, to provide a link to a Wikipedia-specific search, include in the google-link +site:en.wikipedia.org (no spaces before or after), like this:  google:Tip-of-the-day+site:en.wikipedia.org , which looks like this: google:Tip-of-the-day+site:en.wikipedia.org. To clean up the link so that only the part you want to show is presented, use the pipe, like this: : "Tip of the day" , which makes it look like this: "Tip of the day".

Read more: Using external search engines

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