"Wikipedia It" should replace "Google It"

[Jack of Arcades]

If I want to find the answer to a question, like, "who's that chick in the pepsi commercial with Jimmy Fallon?" I use google. Everything else is either wikid or imdb.

If you have firefox (And why don't you?) you can use bookmarks to search. How?

Take a site you want to search on, like, google. A typical google url will look like this:

http://www.google.com/search?q=wikipedia

bookmark this. then go to properties of the bookmark and replace "wikipedia" with "%s." then set the keyword to something like "g." whenever you type in "g wikipedia" in the address bar, it'll search on google.

I think firefox already comes with a quick search bookmark for google.

I have these for google, wikipedia, dictionary.com, IMDB, baseball-refrence and basketball-reference.

[Phoenix1010]

Definitely agree. Wikipedia is my favorite thing on the web.

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It is also not really trustworthy, considering anyone can edit it.

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Yup. I like it a lot for trying to find out easily verifiable stuff...who won the Super Bowl in a certain year, etc., but for anything where bias/opinion can skew the information, I take it with a grain (and sometimes a shaker) of salt.

[Dids]

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It is also not really trustworthy, considering as how it's on the internet

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[Vehn]

fortunatly with the advent of wikipedia there seems to be a new splinter cell of nerds who's lives apparently revolves around fixing wiki "errors".

[Aloysius]

Vehn - yes, but sometimes, even nerds get it wrong.

Skeptical Of All Info on the Innanet,
-Al

[Yoplait, BIMO]

I wonder which wiki page has the most hits.

[Dids]

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fortunatly with the advent of wikipedia there seems to be a new splinter cell of nerds who's lives apparently revolves around fixing wiki "errors".

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Every joke wiki I've seen somebody try and post has been gone within minutes.

The nerds are VIGILANT.

[The Don]

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I wasn't sure what wikipedia was, so I googled it. Seems cool.

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That's amazing because I did the opposite.

[Jack of Arcades]

Well, there are rules on place that limit the misinformation. Things have to have citations and, if they don't, they're marked. Vandalism can be stopped by locking a page from anonymous or new users. etc.

It's not like wikipedia pages just say a bunch of information. there are outside links, citations, a discussion of the topic, etc.