[WikiEN-l] Comparing Wikipedia to other wikis

[Gwern Branwen]

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On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 7:26 AM, Carcharoth wrote:
> What were *you* searching for that meant you failed to find it?
>
> To be fair, using the word "comparing" instead of "comparison" in the
> search terms, means you fail to find it using Wikipedia's internal
> search function (though the Signpost article still pops up), but
> Google, it seems, can be clever and "comparing" still works.
>
> Carcharoth

The same search terms; when I searched, all the hits were for news
articles about when de was blocked by German courts (I didn't bother
to click through to see which incident exactly). I notice that even so
general a search term as 'english german wikipedia' now brings up the
occasional blog post comparing the two Wikipedias (though not
Elian's).

Given my past experience with Google's updating (eg
http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/92xdg/is_it_not_only_pointless_but_counterproductive_to/c0b96f3
), this would seem to be another example of searches rebalancing
Google's results. In the future, when I make claims about things that
can't be found in Google, perhaps I'd better start taking screenshots
so people don't think I'm making things up!

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gwern
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