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theandrewbailey on June 10, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Wikipedia Lost 3B Organic Search Visits to Google ...

If DDG is your default search, use the Wikipedia searchbang[0].

    !w X

will directly search Wikipedia for X.

[0] https://duckduckgo.com/bang

_emacsomancer_ on June 10, 2020 [–]

Even easier, if Firefox is your browser, you can add a search keyword 'w' for Wikipedia and type:

w X

to directly search Wikipedia for X.

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