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Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.
Search of persons. Police officers in various jurisdictions have power to search members of the public, for example, for weapons, drugs and stolen property. [1] This article concerns searches of members of the public who have not been arrested and who are not held in detention.
Search Wikipedia from any web page. To get Wikipedia search results while on any web page, you can temporarily set your web browser's search box to become a Wikipedia search search box, even though you're on another web site (see Help:Searching from a web browser).
A people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. [1] The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. [1]
A people search site or people finder site is a specialized search engine that searches information from public records, data brokers and other sources to compile reports about individual people, usually for a fee.
Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history, [ 3][ 4] and is consistently ranked among the ten most visited websites; as of July 2024, it was ranked fifth by Semrush, [ 5] and seventh by Similarweb. [ 6]
Sep 23, 2021 · To better understand the relationship between Search and Wikipedia, the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that operates Wikipedia, teamed up with DuckDuckGo to explore how people use search engines to get to Wikipedia.
Mar 8, 2022 · If you're looking for a particular topic, name, or phrase, searching the site directly is the way to start. Wikipedia's search function is like consulting the index volume of an encyclopedia, minus the tedium. In the best cases, you are only a few seconds away from answering a query.
WikiTree offers a platform to search and contribute to a collaborative global family tree, accessible for free.
