Try using google. It's usually months out of date; you have to put site:wikipedia.org in there manually to find anything that's actually on the Wikipedia; it comes up with gobs of results, many of which are in languages you can't read. And it's fast! For instance, according to google, my search came up in no time at all:

Your search - "teng hsiao ping" site:wikipedia.org - did not match any documents.

Suggestions:

• Make sure all words are spelled correctly.
• Try different keywords.
• Try more general keywords.
• Try fewer keywords.

Also, you can try Google Answers for expert help with your search.

How easy is that?

(don't tell me, you're one of those folks who's hung up on blaming browsers when the problem's with the server.)

-John "Hephaestos" Robinson (who doesn't work for google either, but one's probably better able to tell it in my case.)

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It's definitely '''not''' easy to find articles without Wikipedia's

search

...

facility I just typed in "[[continental breakfast]]", not knowing

that such

...

an article does not exist (yet) and was referred to [[Departments of

the

...

Continental Army]]

Try using google. It's fast; it doesn't cause Wikipedia to slow down;

it gives >vastly

better content summaries; and it's much better at evaluating the

relative >importance

of pages. For example, if I do a google search for "continental

breakfast", I >get two

hits, in under a second: [[breakfast]], and [[Full English

breakfast]]. >Parfait!

How easy is that? (don't tell me, you're on some browser where the google taskbar

doesn't play, >or

something - in which case, sorry...)

-Martin "MyRedDice" Harper