Wikipedia:Tip of the day/August 7, 2006

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How to link to a Google Search

Links to Google searches can be useful on talk pages and sometimes in the external links sections of articles. Simply include google: as the prefix for the link, like this: [[google:Tipster]], which creates a link that looks like this: google:Tipster.

Important: Do not use spaces in the search. Instead...

For phrases, use a hyphen- ) between each word. For example, to search for "Tip of the day", use Tip-of-the-day.

To add more parameters to the search, separate them by a plus sign ( + ). For example, to provide a link to a Wikipedia-specific search, include in the google-link +site:en.wikipedia.org (no spaces before or after), like this: [[google:Tip-of-the-day+site:en.wikipedia.org]], 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: :[[google:Tipster+site:en.wikipedia.org|"Tip of the day"]], which makes it look like this: "Tip of the day".

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