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January 7, 2009 3:27 PM PST

Googlepedia for Firefox brings Wikipedia to you

by Jessica Dolcourt
Googlepedia for Firefox(Credit: CNET)

If you're one whose search results lead you to a Wikipedia page nine times out of ten, you would do well to install the Googlepedia extension for Firefox.

This free, terrifically easy add-on pulls the Wikipedia article most closely associated with your search term into the right half of a Google search results page. Modest controls let you expand, shrink, or hide the article.

Here's the best part: clicking a link within the article feeds the term back into Google's search engine, and therefore back into Googlepedia's cycle of serving up Wikipedia articles.

Googlepedia will undoubtedly save you time if a quick search is all you need. If you're one to submit to Wikipedia's siren call of never-ending knowledge, download at your own risk.

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by Collin1000 January 7, 2009 5:17 PM PST
...Is it just me or does it also remove all the adsense ads on that right hand side? This will not fare well with Google.
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by RARCA January 7, 2009 11:44 PM PST
I always thought that Google and Wikipedia were in the sack... It is ironic that Wikipedia is at the top of every search page. haha... Nice extension anyway.
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by simmondia January 8, 2009 4:41 AM PST
wikipedia is much better then googlepedia
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by Owyn January 8, 2009 3:37 PM PST
Slick
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by queticomn January 9, 2009 10:21 AM PST
Stupid, bloat ware add-on for the best browser FireFox. Just gotoo the wikipedia website. *heh*
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