On 8/12/07, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Florence, welcome to commons-l :)
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I will let Tangotango or Gmaxwell talk about why the Mayflower/normal search results are different...
They are different because the software works in differing ways. Mayflower's results should be better.
However, Florence was not actually looking at the old search results.
If you type Agriculture into the side box you get the gallery page: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Agriculture
This is hand is a result hand generated by humans. It's a wiki page. It's fairly useful.
This is the search results: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=Agriculture&full...
Not very useful.
http://tools.wikimedia.de/~tangotango/mayflower/search.php?q=Agriculture&... Mayflower results, somewhat more useful.
As our search improves it should become get more qualities of the gallery page.