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[–] buffalobuffalo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

i have this problem. I use ddg sometimes to find wiki info, and if the piece of info is too new, ddg just gives me some clearly vibe-coded page with bogus information.

last week i waded through like 6 fake fields of Mistria wikis on the first page of ddg before giving up and finding the "official" ones on Google

[–] DevDave@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Apologies if you already know this. Sharing because if you're spending a lot of time searching a game wiki, this can be really convenient.

You can setup your browser for typing '@mistria juniper' would bring up the wiki search page for everything related to that character.

disclaimer: I think Chromium can do this too

If you are often referring to a wiki, you can temporarily add it as a search engine to your browser's internal location search bar.

With FireFox -> Settings -> Search -> "Add search engine" in the "Additional search engines"

I picked a random mistria wiki and the URL would be

https://fieldsofmistria.wiki.gg/wiki/Special:Search?search=%25s&go=Go&ns0=1 for searching.

For name '@mistria' should be unique enough.

I got that by typing "test" in the search box to get this "https://fieldsofmistria.wiki.gg/wiki/Special:Search?search=Test&go=Go&ns0=1" just swap out the 'Test' for '%s'

Now press ctrl + l to focus on the location/search bar and type "@mistria juniper" to get an in wiki search results for everything related to that character.

One exception. if the url has something like 'nonce=a4F7DEF' or other hex crap, it is probably not going to work and may get your IP temporarily blocked.

[–] WesternInfidels@feddit.online 4 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Custom searches are awesome! There might be an even easier way:

With Firefox, most of the time, you can right-click a web page's search box and choose "Add Search Engine," and you'll get a box allowing you to give the search a name and a search bar keyword. Which you can edit later with Settings -> Search if needed.

[–] DevDave@piefed.social 1 points 12 hours ago

Great suggestion and it works more often than not.