It's usually months out of date
A month max, IIRC. At the moment it's just under a week out of date: the google
cached version of [[breakfast]], for example, is from the 29th July.
you have to put
site:wikipedia.org in there manually
Nope. You want the "search this site" toolbar button* - if you're on a
wikipedia
webpage when you hit search, it'll automatically add
site:www.wikipedia.org. (If you
can't use the google toolbar, then see the apologies I gave in the last post, and
ignore this mail).
Using
site:www.wikipedia.org rather than
site:wikipedia.org also ensures that you get
only English results, by the way - so that should solve your problem with gobs of
foreign language results.
Hope this helps :)
-Martin "MyRedDice" Harper