Editing Incubator escapee wiki:External search engines (section)

==== Google templates ====

Several [[Help:Template|templates]] are available for creating links to various kinds of Google searches and services. These templates allow more options, such as to search for specific keywords, to link to initially blank search forms, and to search on a specific Web site or on a subdirectory within a site. These templates also allow spaces to separate multiple search keywords, so you don't need to use unusual punctuation. Since these templates create links to Google searches, they cannot search on Wikipedia's Talk: namespace (i.e., [[WP:WIAA|article]] [[Help:Talk page|talk pages]]). These searches should work on non-article talk pages. See the documentation for each template for usage details and examples:

* {{Tl|Google}} – basic Google searches; works similarly to the <code>google:</code> [[Help:Interwiki linking|interwiki link]] prefix.
* {{Tl|Google custom}} – Google searches on a specific site, or on a specific subdirectory within a site; allows for searching on particular Wikipedia namespaces, and searching on a specific page and all its [[Help:Subpage|subpages]].
* {{Tl|Google help desk}} – Google search on Wikipedia's [[WP:HD|Help desk]] and its archives.
* {{Tl|Google images}} – [[Google Image Search]].
* {{Tl|Google translation}} – not a search method, but can provide [[machine translation]] between a limited set of languages, using the [[Google Translate]] service.
* {{Tl|Google wikipedia}} – search the entire [[English Wikipedia]] with Google (except for the Talk: namespace).

In most cases you should not use these templates in [[WP:WIAA|articles]] because they violate [[WP:EL#Links normally to be avoided]]. They are appropriate for pages in other namespaces, such as [[Help:Talk page|talk pages]], the [[WP:HD|Help desk]], [[WP:PROJ|project pages]], and so on. If you just want to run some searches without necessarily creating links to them, see the template pages which provide some example search links.