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<span class="mw-headline" id=".28Desktop.29_New_autocomplete_address_bar">(Desktop) New autocomplete address bar</span>
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The address bar now supports autocompletion. For example, open up English Wikipedia, and start typing <code>earth</code>. The autocomplete is very fast and supports a lot of advanced functionality. For example you can do a search like <code>earth + (history, future) -middle</code> directly in the address bar. See <a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/App/Search/Overview.html" id="xolnki_7" title="App/Search/Overview" class="xowa-visited">App/Search/Overview</a> as well as <a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Options/Search_suggest.html" id="xolnki_8" title="Options/Search suggest">Options/Search suggest</a>.
The address bar now supports autocompletion. For example, open up English Wikipedia, and start typing <code>earth</code>. The autocomplete is very fast and supports a lot of advanced functionality. For example you can do a search like <code>earth + (history, future) -middle</code> directly in the address bar. See <a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/App/Search.html" id="xolnki_7" title="App/Search" class="xowa-visited">App/Search</a> as well as <a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Options/Search_suggest.html" id="xolnki_8" title="Options/Search suggest">Options/Search suggest</a>.
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Unfortunately, the autocomplete uses the new search system, so old wikis need to upgrade the search databases. You can upgrade by any of the following:
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<b>Punctuation friendly</b>: Searches can be done for <code>U.S.A.</code> or <code>USA</code>; <code>dont't</code> or <code>dont</code>; <code>half-life</code> or <code>half</code> or <code>life</code>.
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<b>Boolean searches</b>: Searches can use boolean operators like <code>-</code>, <code>,</code>, <code>+</code>, <code>()</code>, and <code>*</code>. In addition, there's even an escape operator: <code>\</code>. See <a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/App/Search/Overview.html" id="xolnki_11" title="App/Search/Overview" class="xowa-visited">App/Search/Overview</a>
<b>Boolean searches</b>: Searches can use boolean operators like <code>-</code>, <code>,</code>, <code>+</code>, <code>()</code>, and <code>*</code>. In addition, there's even an escape operator: <code>\</code>. See <a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/App/Search.html" id="xolnki_11" title="App/Search" class="xowa-visited">App/Search</a>
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<b>Home wiki</b>: The home wiki is now searchable. Try entering in <code>search</code> or any other word

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<b>Really benefits from an SSD</b>: SQLite really does better with an SSD. I tried some tricks like changing PRAGMA synchronous to OFF, but this only shaves off a dozen or so minutes. In contrast, an SSD will easily knock off an hour if not more (from 2 hours to about 40 min)
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<b>If you want the new search, downloading from archive.org is the easiest way</b>: There are other complexities with the search database rebuild (PageRank algorithm and the 10 GB pagelinks dump: See <a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/App/Search/Overview.html" id="xolnki_9" title="App/Search/Overview" class="xowa-visited">App/Search/Overview</a>). As such, the easiest way is to download prebuilt copies from archive.org:
<b>If you want the new search, downloading from archive.org is the easiest way</b>: There are other complexities with the search database rebuild (PageRank algorithm and the 10 GB pagelinks dump: See <a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/App/Search.html" id="xolnki_9" title="App/Search" class="xowa-visited">App/Search</a>). As such, the easiest way is to download prebuilt copies from archive.org:
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