[WikiEN-l] Bing-bong

Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton at gmail.com
Tue Jun 2 00:12:31 UTC 2009


2009/6/1 Magnus Manske <magnusmanske at googlemail.com>:
> After Microsoft's surprising unveiling of Yet Another Search Engine
> (TM) named "bing", I just /had/ to strike back with a similar
> Wiki(m|p)edia search interface, consequently called "bong".
>
> Using "Cambridge" as an example (because there's something for each "section"):
>
> http://toolserver.org/~magnus/bong.php?doit=1&mode=pedia&q=%20cambridge
>
> It sure misses lots of JavaScript-based eyecandy, but...
>
> Worth extending? Or too toy-ish?

It looks like automated disambig pages to me, I'm not sure how useful
that is. We already have manual disambig pages that are probably
better. Good name, though!



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