How to By-Pass Wikipedia Blackout

Google has put up a Doodle in support of the SOPA / PIPA blackout, but unlike Wikipedia it’s still just as functional as ever. There are two easy ways you can use Google Cache to satisfy your need for a Wikipedia fix:

1. If you have the URL for the Wikipedia page you want, copy-and-paste it into a Google search box — either on Google.com or built into your browser. Then add “cache:” (without the quotation marks) to the beginning of it without any space between them — example:cache:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeekDad. Click the button or hit Enter, and you should be taken immediately to Google Cache’s latest version of that page.
2. If you don’t have the URL, but see a Wikipedia page you’d like to read in a list of Google search results, you don’t have to copy-and-paste the URL. Simply mouseover (and click if necessary) the area to the immediate right of the entry in question so that the preview button and popup appear. At the top of the graphical preview, after the title and URL, there should be a linked word “Cached.” Click it, and boom goes the dynamite.