[WikiEN-l] Ban notices, Wikipedia, and search engines.

[Rich Holton]

Anthony wrote:
> On 9/24/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Losing the ability to search the user space (something tells me
>> MediaWiki's search will never be as good as Google's) is a significant
>> cost to prevent a very unlikely risk.
>>
> I bet Google would be willing to provide Wikipedia with its own
> private Google search appliance if "powered by Google" with a link was
> at the bottom of the results.  Of course, that'd probably piss off
> some Wikipedians.
> 
> Alternatively, the Google Mini Search Appliance is only $2000, and
> would probably be enough to do the trick.
> 

I'm certain this has been suggested in the past. However, we use free 
software for (virtually?) all of the infrastructure, and so a Google 
device (or something like it) is not really a consideration.

-Rich Holton