In a message dated 5/2/2009 1:16:39 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
oskarsigvardsson(a)gmail.com writes:
It's entirely plausible to conceive of a world
where
wikipedia didn't exist and Encarta would be listed as the first hit
when you searched for "James Clerk Maxwell", or whatever you were
interested in. The reason that they're not is simply because Wikipedia
is better.>>
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I don't know if I buy the implication that the first hit is the one people
*like*. Often on the first page of hits I will pick the second, third, or
fifth one, simply because I recognize it as a quality link. Oftentimes the
first hit I recognize right away as something that going to be useless for
me.
Will
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