Top 10 Ways to Search Wikipedia

Posted by Celia Walter | 22 May, 2008
Josh Catone of ReadWriteWeb lists ten ways to search Wikipedia which receives over 683 million visitors per year. Aside from the encylopedia’s official search engine, he compiles a set of intriguing alternatives including semantic search engines, a combined search of all the Wikipedia websites including Wikiquote, Wikibooks, and Wiktionary, and a search which presents results as a mindmap of related entries. His top ten picks are:
  1. Powerset
  2. Wikiwix
  3. AskMeNow
  4. Similpedia
  5. Gollum
  6. Qwika
  7. WikiMindMap
  8. Wikiwax
  9. Lexisum
  10. Ask.com & SearchMash

Bonus site: Wikirage

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