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Please sign your name on talk pages and votes by typing four tildes (~~~~); our software automatically converts it to your username and the date. We're so glad you're here! Meatsgains(talk) 01:17, 20 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

How to search Wikipedia with Google/Bing

To limit Google or Bing searches to the English Wikipedia, include this in your search string: site:en.wikipedia.org.

You can even do a Google search of Wikipedia from Wikipedia's own search box! For example, to use Google to search for pages with "geology" in the title, type this into WP's search box: google:geology+site:en.wikipedia.org

This link does the same thing: google:geology+site:en.wikipedia.org.

Another way is to use Google's or Bing's advanced settings. (To get there from Google's or Bing's search page, click on the gear icon).

To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd}}