On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 11:59 AM, David Goodman dgoodmanny@gmail.com wrote:
the solution to inadequacies there in other respects is to upgrade it. I though thatthis was in fact an ongoing project? or hove we given it up, in favor of becoming willing to do whatever google says we should do?
But google has pretty good search. What do we do that google mandates? I think if google started mandating things people didn't like, a new search engine would come around pretty quickly. Yahoo and MSN aren't drastically worse now even.
Searching is not a commodity yet, I don't see why Wiki[m|p]edia should spend a huge amount of time on it, it's a pretty serious non-core problem imo. Our search is plenty good for people to find the article on monkeys, let's let google worry about diacritical marks, word stemming, pagerank etc.