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In this section, we're gong to discuss searching within a wiki. Are you familiar with searching within a major search engine such as Google or Yahoo? If so, you're in luck. Searching a wiki is very much like searching a mini Internet. In fact, many major search providers also power major wiki searches. For example, to search within the Wikipedia, the first step you're going to do is type the keyword you wish to search for. Next you'll click go and proceed directly to an article that matches that search criteria, or you can click search to view a listing of articles that match that search criteria and I'm going to show you how to do that right now. I'm going to switch to my browser. In this case, it's Safari on the Apple Macintosh and I'm going to go to the Wikipedia page. I'm going to choose the English encyclopedia and this is the main page for the English encyclopedia. I'm going to browse down and on the left side here you'll see the search box. This is where you will conduct your Wikipedia search and I'm just going to search for the topic of France. Again, I'm going to click go to go directly to a page that meets that search criteria and you'll see the tool tip logo that says go to a page with this exact name if this exists. So I'm going to click go and there you see it brings the page directly up for France. I'm just going to go back here and I'm going to look at the search box. Now, you'll notice below the tool tip that says search the pages for this text. If I click search, it brings up a page of all the results that meet the criteria and you'll notice France, Napoleon I of France, departments of France, etcetera and these all have a corresponding relevance percentage. Some tips for conducting effective searches; don't use common words such as a, an or the. You'll get too many search results. If applicable, avoid stop words. Know the rules for your search for using single and double quotes. In some cases, using an external search engine can be faster than using the wiki's internal search capability. Let me show you how this works. I'm just going to go back to my browser here and I'm going to go to the Google home page; just Google.com. You'll notice here that I did a search for the word France. What's the first result that comes back? Wikipedia and you'll notice for most topics this will be the case. This is because Google indexes Wikipedia and all the articles contained therein and a lot of the major wikis will be indexed by Google. In fact, most web pages are indexed by Google. So you can do one search for a topic and get all the results back and your first is most likely going to be Wikipedia for a major topic. This can, a lot of times, be faster and more efficient than using the wiki search engine itself. However, there are search engines that are evolving that index only wikis and one of those is called Qwika; Q-w-i-k-a. There are lots of options for searching wikis, so I encourage you to research and get more acquainted with the search capabilities that are out there and what's best for you and your wiki.