One problem with relying on google. It still does not carry all wikipedia pages. I wanted to check something on the Papal Coronation page but google couldn't find it. I also wanted to check something on the Papal Tiara page. Again google never heard of it. Yet these pages definitely do exist. I know. I created them. I have been in them since I first created them. And I could find them on our search engine but not via google. (I ended up using my watchlist to track them down.) And if those two pages don't exist according to goodle, what other wiki pages does it not recognise and why? JT
And for any doubters, this is NOT NOT NOT intended to be permanent or semi-permanent. It should be gotten rid of as soon as possible.
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On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 22:46, james duffy wrote:
One problem with relying on google. It still does not carry all wikipedia pages. ....
That's why it's a temporary emergency measure, not a permanent deliberate change.
I've restored the regular search during off-peak hours (04:00-16:00 UTC; 20:00-08:00 US west coast; for the aussies, this should be 14:00-02:00 Canberra time if I'm reading my timezone chart right).
We should be able to dump the google crutch entirely soon. We've a new second server on the way to spread out the work over two machines; a new stable MySQL release is out which should be able to search faster (if I'm to believe what I'm told) which we will be testing shortly; and load is down a bit thanks to PHP Accelerator, which I've installed on Marumani's advice. (It seems more stable than the Alternative PHP Cache, which we had used off and on in the past, but which we had some problems with and had to remove.)
And if those two pages don't exist according to goodle, what other wiki pages does it not recognise and why?
It won't recognize anything that didn't exist when google last crawled our site. It might not recognize things that had errors when it last checked them.
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