+++ Friday 14 November 2025 +++

Wikipedia as search engine in EWW
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The demise of the search engines and the embrace of untrustworthy,
useless AI-generated results, optimistically referred to as
"AI-powered" are upon us. It is time to rethink the way we search.

EWW
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This is what the documentation of EWW starts:

   EWW, the Emacs Web Wowser, is a web browser for GNU Emacs that
   provides a simple, no-frills experience

It is a web browser that is build into Emacs. The browsing experience
is similar to browsing with links, and lynx. Eww supports the inline
display of images. And it doesn't support JavaScript, which is great
for your privacy protection, it also kills some paywalls (but not all).

Searching with EWW
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Start EWW with `M-x eww'. The mini-buffer now prompts to enter an
URL or keywords.

When the input you supply is not recognized as an URL, it is
considered a search argument, and EWW loads the default search
engine with this argument.

Out of the box, the search engine used by EWW is duckduckgo.

Replace the default search engine
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Of course you can change the default search engine, it is Emacs
after all. The default search engine is defined in the variable
`eww-search-prefix'.

Set it as follows to use Wikipedia as search engine:

   (setq eww-search-prefix
       "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=")


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