On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 17:40, Steve Summit <scs(a)eskimo.com> wrote:
Carcharoth wrote:
I suppose the idea is that most people using that
search box want
"go" functionality,
Many tech-savvy editors, perhaps, but certainly not most readers.
not "search" functionality, but seeing
as Google's default is
"search" not "go", I suspect more people are used to getting a list
of search results and clicking the top one than might be realised.
Indeed. If there's to be one box, clearly it should be "Search",
not "Go". (And the search results page already has a "Wikipedia has
an article on %s" link right at the top, if there's an exact match.
So, retconned, "Go" is/was kinda like the Google "I'm feeling
lucky"
button.)
... Yes, it makes a lot of sense that there would be such a button in
Wikipedia, because quite a lot of the people who type "obama" probably
just want the article about the president (but someone should research
how many exactly). Forcing them to see a list of results and have them
click on the first one wastes some time.
But it also makes sense to be able to run a full-text search as easily
as possible.
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