[Foundation-l] LA Times article / Advertising in Wikipedia

Brion Vibber brion at wikimedia.org
Fri Mar 14 16:48:35 UTC 2008


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Delirium wrote:
| I can only give anecdotal evidence, but my impression is that the search
| really has gotten much better. I used to never bother trying to use it,
| but now I use it first, falling back to Google only if I can't find
| anything via the internal search. The ordering seems mostly reasonable,
| and with the result snippets added, the only Google feature I really
| find I miss now and then is suggesting corrections of misspellings.

I do believe that's one of the things Robert's been working on, trying
to get a well-performing implementation of spelling suggestions.

- -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
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