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===Advantages of the wiki search box===
===Advantages of the wiki search box===
Searching for the singular finds the plural, and vice versa. Searching for the lower case term finds the capitalized term. Examples:
Searching for the singular finds the plural, and vice versa. Searching for the lower case term finds the capitalized term. Examples:
* Searching for '''enzyme''' (singular, not capitalized) finds [[Glycolysis Enzymes]] (plural, capitalized), a page where the singular does not occur. It also finds pages where only the plural term occurs in the text (and not in the title), e.g. [[Ouabain]].
* Searching for '''enzyme''' (singular, not capitalized) finds [[Glycolysis Enzymes]] (plural, capitalized), a page where the singular does not occur. It also finds pages where only the plural (never the singular) term occurs in the text (and neither term in the title), e.g. [[Ouabain]].
* Searching for '''enzymes''' (plural, not capitalized) finds  
* Searching for '''enzymes''' (plural, not capitalized) finds [[Insulin-Degrading Enzyme]] (singular, capitalized), an article in which the singular term does not occur. It also finds pages where only the singular (never the plural) term occurs in the text, but does not highlight the singular term in red under the page title, e.g. [[Butyrylcholinesterase]].


You can put double quotes around a phrase to restrict hits to the phrase, rather than getting hits to all pages that include any word in the phrase. See more tips [[#More powerful searching|below]].
You can put double quotes around a phrase to restrict hits to the phrase, rather than getting hits to all pages that include any word in the phrase. See more tips [[#More powerful searching|below]].

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Eric Martz, Jaime Prilusky, Eran Hodis, Karsten Theis