[WikiEN-l] Re: Search function [+ Google]

Bill at ng3k.com Bill at ng3k.com
Mon Aug 4 20:39:38 UTC 2003


On 3 Aug 2003 at 1:42, John Robinson wrote:

> Try using google.  It's usually months out of date; you have to put 
> site:wikipedia.org in there manually to find anything that's actually 
> on the Wikipedia; it comes up with gobs of results, many of which are 
> in languages you can't read.

Specify "site:www.wikipedia.org" to limit retrieval to the English
Wikipedia.  Also, the google advanced search page lays out the
advanced functionality in any easy-to-use manner:

  http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en

HTH,

Bill



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