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Is it weaponized SEO, though? Because I have been adding "wikipedia" recently to many of my searches. Google has penalized Wikipedia in search results significantly (at least for me). I'm not sure what's the logic behind especially that 1. Wikipedia is trustworthy and ad-free and 2. I click mostly Wikipedia, so from a MLearning perspective I should be getting more wikipedia results.


Honestly, I think a good search engine would hardcode the first two results to be the official website for "thing" and the wikipedia page for "thing" if they exist. Then it can list out the organic results. Just that change would make search 10X better than it currently is.


Consider skipping a step and querying wikipedia directly. Bookmark https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=%s&title=Special... in your browser and giving it the shortcut w (or whatever you think makes sense)


I've been using a Firefox search keyword for Google+Wikipedia and it works great.


Same, I tend to trust wikipedia and it hasn't been showing up nearly as much


Just use ddg. By nowadays its just better.


I prefer the results it provides over googles these days. Where it falls short is on maps.




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