The search is executed faster than Mayflower, but the images load a lot slower than they do on Mayflower. Aside from that the search algorithm doesn't seem to be that good either:
Wikiwix: 9 results for 'dog' Mayflower: 3,416 results for 'dog'
I get the same low results when searching for other common terms.
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On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
Wikiwix search engine now has an image search function. http://www.wikiwix.com/?img=true&action=&lang=en
They wrote a bit about some special features it has on the VP http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Wikiwix_for_Commons
Give it a try, report if you find anything very useful or very broken. (Best to report on the VP I think)
For my part, I find it much less useful than Mayflower because there's no metadata display, and also it seems to show lots of thumb results to images that don't actually exist.
cheers Brianna
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