ยท Firefoxman wrote:
Lets fase it, the MediaWiki search is dreadful. Is is possible that we can go to Google search and embed it or somthing?
The barrier to using a solution such as Google's "search appliance" is philosophical rather than technical or financial (although those may also pose certain challenges). The Wikimedia Foundation is committed to support open source software, and Google is not open source.
What needs to happen is for a group of developers to develop a new search engine (or adapt an existing open source engine) so it can be embedded into MediaWiki.
Our expectations of what a search engine can do are set by Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc.
Of course, it's "impossible" for any volunteer-driven open-source project to compete with a well-funded product from a major corporation. I mean, that would be like taking on Internet Explorer, or Microsoft Office, or... hmmm... Encyclopedia Brittanica.
-Rich