I've been working on book search at the Internet Archive, and I've
been using Wikipedia article titles and redirects as entities and
synonyms. I wanted to build autocomplete for this gizmo, so I
downloaded 7 days of pageviews for the en Wikipedia, and wrote
a tiny script to sum them up. It worked great!
Here's the demo (currently live, will disappear eventually).
"number" is the pageviews count.
curl
http://researcher3.fnf.archive.org:8080/autocomplete?q=Que | json_pp
{
"autocomplete" : [
{
"number" : 68310,
"label" : "Queen Victoria"
},
{
"number" : 53283,
"label" : "Quentin Tarantino"
},
{
"number" : 29192,
"label" : "Quebec"
},
{
"number" : 23717,
"label" : "Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother"
},
{
"number" : 20500,
"label" : "Quetiapine"
}
]
}