[WikiEN-l] Searchability of non-mainspace pages

[Judson Dunn]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 11:59 AM, David Goodman <dgoodmanny at gmail.com> wrote:
>  the solution to inadequacies there in other respects is to upgrade it.
>  I though thatthis was in fact an ongoing project? or hove we given it
>  up, in favor of becoming willing to do whatever google says we should
>  do?

But google has pretty good search. What do we do that google mandates?
I think if google started mandating things people didn't like, a new
search engine would come around pretty quickly. Yahoo and MSN aren't
drastically worse now even.

Searching is not a commodity yet, I don't see why Wiki[m|p]edia should
spend a huge amount of time on it, it's a pretty serious non-core
problem imo. Our search is plenty good for people to find the article
on monkeys, let's let google worry about diacritical marks, word
stemming, pagerank etc.

Judson
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