On 9/24/07, Simetrical <Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Incidentally, there's no mileage in having access
to the default
search. It's slow to even maintain the indexes. Anyone using a
better search solution would be best off dropping the relevant
indexes/tables or otherwise disabling it for performance reasons if
nothing else.
Out of curiosity, what is the reason we just don't use Google (or
such)? The search capabilities in en.wiki are almost completely
useless, IMHO, it can't even find articles with identical names if the
capitalization is wrong, and it completely lacks anything like spell
checking or reasonable relevance rankling. In order to find articles
on en.wiki, I invariably open a second browser to search in, and this
strikes me as rather sub-optimal. Is there anything I can do about
this at "my end"?
Maury