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David Gerard wrote:
Charles Matthews wrote:
Title of a column in today's London
Independent, by technology correspondent
Charles Arthur. Oh, BTW, it's favourable to WP.
Analyst wank: the subgenre of business and technology reporting where
a columnist comes up with a good headline then writes a flight of
fancy making it sound like a plausible idea. Ones that don't happen
are forgotten and ones that do happen make the columnist look
amazingly prescient.
Yep, often they do it to cover up their own technical ineptitude and
general cluelessness.
That said, it does raise the issue of what people want
from a search engine.
Well, that's not what Wikipedia is. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia.
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