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== Search page ==
[[File:Search page.PNG|thumb|300px|alt=Wikipedia special search box|The search page.]]

The search page features a search box, with some links to search domains beneath it. {{crossref|pw=y|(For information on what can by typed into the search box, see [[#Search string syntax|Search string syntax]] above.)}}

The main difference between this search box and the one that appears on article pages is that exact matches on this one will not navigate you directly to an article page. This search box will produce the [[#Search results page|search results page]] showing what all matches your search on Wikipedia.

To get to the search page, perform an empty search (press {{keypress|Enter}} while in the [[#Search box|search box]] before typing anything else in), or click on the {{Button|Search}} button. The link [[Special:Search]], which can be inserted onto user pages or project pages, for example, also leads to the search page.

While the entire contents of the search page is included in the [[#Search results page|search results page]], it is a distinct page. User scripts might be designed to work on the search results page but not the search page, for example.

{{crossref|pw=y|(For an explanation of the controls available on the search page, see [[#Refining results|Refining results]] below.)}}