Help:External searches

Wiki Help Tables and templates  External searches

It is possible to create external searches of a topic by using key words or by using a template.

For example, this is something that would work for Google: &lt;span style="border: 1px solid #CCD5DB;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;noinclude&gt;

Usage
Allows to establish a link to a search query at the Google search engine: &lt;div style="display:table; width:auto;"&gt;&lt;pre&gt;

&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;/noinclude&gt;

The usage is very simple and easy to use.

It is also possible to do phrases by using %22Term1+Term2+etc%22


 * External searches are useful when an article requires certain keywords to make an effective search.
 * For the editor it allows making searches of the web more quickly.

Other applications of the template include searching Forums, for bug reports of the same type for software development wikis where the wiki and forum work together.

Note: Wikipedia has an interwiki prefix with a similar effect, so you can link to google results with firstTerm+Second+etc, although templates are still useful for linking other search engines.

For a clear advantage of implementing a template over the default Google interwiki prefix, consider the following, modified example: &lt;span style="border: 1px solid #CCD5DB;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;noinclude&gt;

Usage
Allows to establish a link to a search query at the Google search engine:
 * &lt;code&gt;&lt;/code&gt;
 * &lt;code&gt;&lt;/code&gt;

&lt;/noinclude&gt;

Note the application of MediaWiki magic word. This grants us the convenience and elegance of entering the query string in a FamilySearch Wiki article in the same literal form we would enter it in Google search box, including spaces and quotation marks instead of representing them indirectly with  and.