Wikipedia Review: Opinions and Editorials

Googling in Firefox just got a whole lot better!

July 14th, 2007 by Somey

Over on WikiEN-L, our ol’ buddy Dave Gerard has brought our attention to a new Firefox search plugin that removes Wikipedia results from Google searches. It’s available here from Distilled, an SEO blog, and since it’s just one little XML file it takes only a few seconds to install. Simply put, all it does is add a new option to your search drop-down that says “Google Search excluding Wikipedia,” and it uses Google’s new Custom Search API to do just that. In the results page, the words “Google without Wikipedia” appear where the word “Web” would normally appear (screenshot).

Needless to say, some folks over at Wikipedia are poo-pooing this idea, depite the self-evident fact that it may be one of Mankind’s Greatest Inventions, or at the very least, the most essential Firefox add-on ever devised. Read the rest of this entry �