Apparently, they search their own cached copy of Wikipedia. There's no way
they could return their results so fast if they sent a request to our
server. :-)
Larry
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jimmy Wales" <jwales(a)bomis.com>
To: <wikipedia-l(a)nupedia.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 12:01 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] CNet now metasearches Wikipedia
Wow! We should probably do some hard work to speed up
the search engine.
Larry Sanger wrote:
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