On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 12:28 AM, AGK wikiagk@googlemail.com wrote:
On 20 May 2010 16:23, Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com wrote:
Yeah, but are they using the search box or using Google?
A moot question. There is no excuse for having Wikipedia make do with a search box that is at best odd—and at worst an obstruction to our reader's searches. What bothers me is that the search function we had until a week ago was *perfectly fine*. Seemingly to move the box from the left of the page to the top required a (detrimental) restructure of its basic behaviour.
What I meant was that the number of page views can't be related to use of the internal search function, because so many people arrive from clicking a result they find in Google. But I'm sure those tracking the data from before and after for use of the search box know that, and you are right that the search box usability and function should still be optimised to serve those that use it.
Carcharoth