On 9/13/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'm going to take down the wikicharts tool if I
continue to see it
used incorrectly to argument stupid arguments.
At this point I belive it is traditional to mention certian cultures
not getting irony.
Secondly, we are not provided with any of another
important metrics.
For example, if a person googles for "penis anal fisting rectum
succubus" they'll get [[Anal Sex]] and be counted as any other reader,
but I'd be willing to bet good money that 9 out of 10 look at the page
for all of 5 seconds before realizing that this is not the hardcore
porno they were looking for and they hit the back button.
Perhaps but it is equaly likely to do with long established human
tendancy to look up rude words in dictionaries.
The fact of the matter is quite simply that we
don't know much, and we
certainly can't say from the data we have that we have any clue about
what people want.
Judgeing by various complaints people want answers.
... and I don't think thats a big deal. Nothing
about creating a free
content encyclopedia or freeing the knowledge of the world requires
that we be the number one destination for the news of the day.
Perhaps but where else would you suggest that people should have got
information on Pope Benedict XVI on April 19, 2005
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geni