<P>Not only that, but it doesn't differntiate between a character string in a title and a character string in an article. And it includes postings to the mailing list, which we may not want to publicize.
<P>Zoe
<P> <B><I>Erik Moeller <erik_moeller@gmx.de></I></B> wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">> If the search feature is slowing down the site, I think using Google<BR>> would be a satisfactory permanent alternative. We've been using it<BR>> for years at the PR Watch web site, with no complaints.<BR><BR>I'm very much against this. Having search results in realtime is of <BR>crucial importance for serious article work to avoid duplicates. The <BR>Google spider only comes ever so often and misses a lot. PR Watch is one <BR>thing, Wikipedia is a couple orders of magnitude bigger, though. As a <BR>very, very temporary hack, the Google search is fine. But we need to get <BR>the realtime search (with wikisource no less!) back up and running ASAP.<BR><BR>If we have to disable critical features to keep the site running, we may <BR>as well disable editing altogether until we have raised enough money to <BR>buy a bigger server and/or hire developers.<BR><BR>As for optimization, there are still a few things we need to do, but we <BR>also have to keep in mind that a single server is now running all language <BR>Wikipedias + meta, and all of them are growing fast (faster now that <BR>Google indexes us again). I hope we have the nonprofit setup soon, and if <BR>we can't get it setup, we should start raising donations without an <BR>organization. Kuro5hin raised 35000 dollars in a few days -- I'm not sure <BR>if we can get that high, but we should certainly try.<BR><BR>Regards,<BR><BR>Erik<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>WikiEN-l mailing list<BR>WikiEN-l@wikipedia.org<BR>http://www.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l</BLOCKQUOTE><p><br><hr size=1>Do you Yahoo!?<br>
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