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  2. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

    the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. Reagan graduated from Eureka College in 1932 and began to work as a sports broadcaster in Iowa. In 1937, he moved to California, and became a well-known film actor ...

  3. Wikipedia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia

    Wikipedia began as a complementary project for Nupedia, a free online English-language encyclopedia project whose articles were written by experts and reviewed under a formal process. [20] It was founded on March 9, 2000, under the ownership of Bomis, a web portal company.

  4. English Wikipedia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia

    The English Wikipedia is the primary [a] English-language edition of Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia. It was created by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger on 15 January 2001, as Wikipedia's first edition. English Wikipedia is hosted alongside other language editions by the Wikimedia Foundation, an American nonprofit organization.

  5. Help:Searching - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Searching

    The search box is an input box with the term "Search Wikipedia" in it. In the Vector skin, it is located in the top right corner of the screen. In Monobook, it is in the middle of the sidebar on the left of the screen. To use the search box, click in it, or jump to it, and type in your search string.

  6. Search engine - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine

    A search engine is a software system that provides hyperlinks to web pages and other relevant information on the Web in response to a user's query. The user inputs a query within a web browser or a mobile app, and the search results are often a list of hyperlinks, accompanied by textual summaries and images.

  7. Help:Searching from a web browser - Wikipedia

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    Under Site search, click Add and choose a name and keyword for Wikipedia search. (for example, the keyword can be "wiki") You will use the keyword in the address bar to search Wikipedia directly by typing the keyword and then either tab or space depending on your settings.

  8. Help:Searching/Features - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Searching/Features

    Search is a search engine that does a full text search by querying an index database. It offers search syntax and parameters exceeding the capabilities and control of other public search engines that could search Wikipedia. Page score. Say the search box is given two words. The search starts with two index lookups, and the two results are ...

  9. List of search engines - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines

    Desktop search product with Outlook plugin and limited support for other formats via IFilters, uses Lucene search engine. Proprietary (14-day trial) Nepomuk: Linux: Open-source semantic desktop search tool for Linux. Has been replaced by Baloo in KDE Applications from release 4.13 onward. License SA 3.0 and the GNU Free Documentation License 1. ...