Posts Tagged ‘wikipedia’

Better Keyword Search for Wikipedia in Firefox

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

If you’re not aware of the “Add Keyword for this Search” try going to google and right-click on the search box, and click “Add Keyword for this Search” and just put a keyword as “test” for now. Now, hit ctrl+l (or cmd+l on a Mac) and enter “test election” and it will take you to a search page as if you searched google for “election.” Basically, you can do this with any search box. It’s really great, actually. I much prefer this method to the search box because I only like using one hotkey.

Anyways, since I frequent Wikipedia a lot, I have one set up for Wikipedia. Unfortunately, Wikipedia isn’t all that good at catching your typos or knowing where you really want to go like Google does.

Solution: Set up a quicksearch to use google’s are you feeling lucky to search wikipedia.org. Here’s how you do it:

  • Go to Bookmarks->Organize Bookmarks
  • Create new bookmark
  • Add a name and appropriate keyword (I chose “wiki” for mine)
  • For the location use:
    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Awikipedia.org+%s&btnI=745

I found a nice little tip on what to add to the search to “feel lucky”.