On 6/27/06, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
On 27/06/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
By what definition of hold up? Yes it's does seem to be providing results faster than ever but they haven't stopped being low quality and nearly useless..
You mean the indexing's too out of date, or something else?
Indexing is out of date, searching for multiple words gives the union not the intersection, if there is stemming it is broken, and no ability to do fuzzy matching (no soundex or double metaphone equal) means that if you don't spell something the same as the article (or you don't know how to spell it, a top use for search...) then you don't get results.. oh and searching other namespaces is broken ( for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?ns8=1&search=There&fullt...).
Due to these factors it is always more useful to use google to search Wikipedia.
The bug that where certain characters in the excerpt halt the display of more results still exists as well.
Is this known on BugZilla?
I'm not sure. It's easy to reproduce, but hard to pin down when things aren't up to date. I recall that Kate knew about it. ::shrugs::.