On 25 Aug 2004, at 22:05, wikien-l-request(a)Wikipedia.org wrote:
How does having articles of borderline interest make
it unusable?
If I type "George Washington" into Google and end up at the excellent
Wikipedia article of the same name, Wikipedia has proved very usuable.
It is completely irrelevant whether a borderline article such as
"George
from Rainbow" is also available *for those who search for it*
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Pete/Pcb21
If all search results were always 100% accurate, well then... I'd agree
with you Pete.
However:
In this imperfect world with imperfect Google search results, people
*will* run across such "rubbish" or "not up to our standards" articles
pretty quickly on Google the longer said articles stay online here.
It's not exactly like we're situated at the a*se end of domain space
that Google bots warely visit.
So Rick has a fair point there.
- Jens