I posted this today on the External Search Engines page
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:External_search_engines), thought
it might be worthwhile to cc it here:
Has anyone explored the Atomz Search application for use on
Wikipedia? (see
http://www.atomz.com/applications/search/ and also their
FAQ
<http://www.atomz.com/applications/search/faq.htm>http://www.atomz.com/applications/search/faq.<http://www.atomz.com/applications/search/faq.htm>htm
).
I use the free Express version for my personal site, and it works very
well, is extraordinarily customizable, easy to integrate into a site, and
you control ''when'' content is indexed. I've seen it on many other
pro
sites as well.
It's a pay service for sites with more than 500 pages (heh), and of course
there's no pricing on their website -- it's ye olde "contact our sales
staff" routine. It may be too pricey for a site as large and
index-intensive as this one, but it should at least be worth exploring.....
especially since the search application in hosted on
'''''their'''''
servers, not ours. And who knows, they may be willing to negotiate a deal
with a site as prominent as ours is becoming.
Perhaps Jimbo or someone else with an idea of how much we would be willing
to spend to have a reliable internal search mechanism could contact them...?
CatherineMunro
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