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Forum:You can change the way searching works (edit)
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Do you miss the old way of searching? Remember the days when you could just enter "William Hartnell" into the search bar and you'd actually ''go'' to [[William Hartnell]]? Well, '''you can get it all back'''. | Do you miss the old way of searching? Remember the days when you could just enter "William Hartnell" into the search bar and you'd actually ''go'' to [[William Hartnell]]? Well, '''you can get it all back'''. | ||
Just go to [[Special:Preferences/Under the | Just go to [[Special:Preferences/Under the Hood]]. At the very bottom of that page is an option that reads, '''Enable Go-Search'''. Select it, and you'll be back to using the search bar as a direct navigational aid. | ||
You can still keep the new behaviour around for those times when you want it. Simply intentionally misspell a search and you'll end up at [[Special:Search]]'s new "results-based" search engine. And frankly, that engine is a ''lot'' better for looking for pictures than "go-searching". But if you know where you want to go, you'll probably want to enable Go-Searching. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}}{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}} 23:47: Wed 05 Sep 2012</span> | You can still keep the new behaviour around for those times when you want it. Simply intentionally misspell a search and you'll end up at [[Special:Search]]'s new "results-based" search engine. And frankly, that engine is a ''lot'' better for looking for pictures than "go-searching". But if you know where you want to go, you'll probably want to enable Go-Searching. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}}{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}} 23:47: Wed 05 Sep 2012</span> | ||
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