On talk pages, it may be useful to provide a google search link directly in a discussion of a topic's notability or in debates about which name for a subject is the most common. The Wikimedia software that powers Wikipedia lets you make links to Google by including google:
as the prefix for the link, like this:
[[google:Tipster]]
.
Which looks like this:
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 "Tip of the day"
, use Tip-of-the-day
.
To provide a link to a Wikipedia-specific search, include in the google-link +site:en.wiki.x.io
(no spaces before or after), like this:
[[google:Tip-of-the-day+site:en.wiki.x.io]]
.
Which looks like this:
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.wiki.x.io|"Tip of the day"]]
Which makes it look like this: