The owners of Wikipedia considered that is time for the next step, they launched Wikiseek.com their own search engine.

How they like to say A better way to search Wikipedia, Wikiseek utilizes Searchme's category technology, providing suggested search refinements based on what users tagged and catogrized in Wikipedia, making results more relevant than conventional search engines.

wikiseeklogo.pngIn fact their search is based only on Wikipedia pages and links which are referenced within Wikipedia. SearchMe claims that the new search engine is "an authoritative source of information less subject to spam and SEO schemes".

Wikiseek has two important features, first it can be used for easier search on Wikipedia and the second is that it will return only very high quality results and very little spam. They have also some extra features that other search engine don't have, for example a tag cloud which contains Wikipedia categories containing the search term and results can be quickly filtered by clicking on one of those categories.

The search engine is also providing some tools that will help users get the best out of Wikipedia and WikiSeek:

If you use IE7, Firefox 1.5+, or Mozilla/Netscape 6+, you can add Wikiseek Search to your Toolbar.

http://www.wikiseek.com/tools/search_plugin/

If you use Firefox you can install the Wikiseek Search Extension to add Wikiseek to the search form inside all Wikipedia pages.

http://www.wikiseek.com/tools/FF_extension/

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I read all those articles and I will start applying some of the tips and share with you the results, maybe if you check out that articles you share with us some of your experiences.