Brion wrote:
So why are we talking about this? Google isn't
going to
vanish from the web because we get the internal search
back online.
Yeah but the link to the Google search form may disappear from Wikipedia once
the in-house search is re-enabled. I find the Wikipedia Google search to be
rather powerful for serious data mining where up to the minute article data
is not needed. So I guess I'm advocating for a "Search {ProjectName} from
Google" radio button right under the MediaWiki search form. The default of
the toggle would be to use MediaWiki's own search functionality so long as
the database server isn't bogged down.
Giving people the option of live database search and Googlesearch should
reduce database server load as well (I always felt guilty using the Wikipedia
search before but was still too lazy to visit my user page to click on my own
link to the Wikipedia search form on Google. ).
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)