Editing Incubator escapee wiki:External search engines (section)

====How to provide a link to a specific Google Search====
Wikipedia markup allows you to insert links to Google searches by including <tt>google:</tt> as the prefix for the link. This can sometimes be useful on talk pages. It is done like this:

:<tt><nowiki>[[google:Tipster]]</nowiki></tt>.

Which looks like this:

:[[google:Tipster]]

'''Note:''' It is important not to use spaces in the search. To add more parameters to the search, separate them by a plus sign, '''+'''. For a phrase search, use a hyphen (minus sign), '''-''', between each word. E.g. to search for <tt>"Tip of the day"</tt>, use <tt>Tip-of-the-day</tt>.

: ''User's comment:'' It can't really work, other than by accident, as in [[Google:overselling+-wikipedia]] (even when typed in as <tt><nowiki>[[Google:overselling%2B-wikipedia]]</nowiki></tt>—at the very least in Opera [[History of the Opera web browser #Version 8.5|version 8.54]], 2005, if not in all browsers). This is because the plus (<tt>+</tt>) is not meant as [[white-space character]] replacement in Google queries, even if it is used in this role in [[URL encoding]]. The plus is meant merely as a [[Prefix (disambiguation)|prefix]], ''in addition'' to a white-space character. (''[[Cf.]]'' "The minus sign should appear immediately before the word and should be preceded with a space" [http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer=136861]—for a similar issue with the minus.) If the defect I'm talking about turns out to be browser-dependent, just click on [http://www.google.com/search?q=overselling%2B-wikipedia this] to see what I mean.<br /><!--''[[User:6birc|6birc]] ([[User talk:6birc|talk]]) 18:59, 29 April 2009 (UTC)''-->

To provide a link to a Wikipedia-specific search, include <tt>+site:en.wikipedia.org</tt> in the Google link (no spaces before or after), like this:

:<tt><nowiki>[[google:Tip-of-the-day+site:en.wikipedia.org]]</nowiki></tt>.

Which looks like this:

:[[google:Tip-of-the-day+site:en.wikipedia.org]]

To clean up the link so that only the part you want to show is presented, use the pipe, like this:

:<tt><nowiki>[[google:Tipster+site:en.wikipedia.org|"Tip of the day"]]</nowiki></tt>

Which makes it look like this:

:[[google:Tipster+site:en.wikipedia.org|"Tip of the day"]]