Google is how people get _to_ Wikipedia and does a good job at it; as an internal navigation mechanism it's wholly unsatisfactory for contributors who need to be able to check the current state of things in detail.
secunded wholeheartedly sometimes it takes many days for google to index a page. If you look for it, and do not exactly remember the title, you are doomed.
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At 11:42 AM 4/12/03 -0800, Anthere wrote:
Google is how people get _to_ Wikipedia and does a good job at it; as an internal navigation mechanism it's wholly unsatisfactory for contributors who need to be able to check the current state of things in detail.
secunded wholeheartedly sometimes it takes many days for google to index a page. If you look for it, and do not exactly remember the title, you are doomed.
I agree with Brion's statement.
But my experience with Google has been that it's very good for finding old pages. It's especially good at finding mispelled ones. For finding new ones, "many days" is generous... several weeks is my experience.
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