Maybe the article didn't exist. Try typing in Red_Harvest after wikipedia.org/wiki/. That's what I aways do. The page doesn't exist. We need more people to write book articles. I write one after every book I read for school. If everyone collectively tries to avoid using the search engine, the server will be much faster.
One way the search engine could be improved on is if by default it does a logical "and" search, rather than the logical "or" search it appears to do now. To provide an example of what I'm talking about, the other night I needed to know who wrote the novel "Red Harvest," so I did a search on Wikipedia using those two words. What the search engine did was return all of the articles with the words "red" or "harvest" in either the title or the body of the article.
After glancing through the first hundred hits, I gave up on Wikipedia, & used Amazon's search engine. The book was the first or second on the list.
Although I'm not a database programmer (although I've taken a couple of classes on Oracle & SQL in the past), I'd guess that it's not that much of a performance hit to have the search query first treat the input as an "and" statement, then if nothing is returned, say in the subject head, then offer to rerun the query as an "or" statement.
Just my two cents.
Geoff
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