[WikiEN-l] NYT on history of Encarta

[WJhonson at aol.com]

In a message dated 5/2/2009 1:16:39 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
oskarsigvardsson at gmail.com writes:


> It's entirely plausible to conceive of a world where
> wikipedia didn't exist and Encarta would be listed as the first hit
> when you searched for "James Clerk Maxwell", or whatever you were
> interested in. The reason that they're not is simply because Wikipedia
> is better.>>
> 

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I don't know if I buy the implication that the first hit is the one people 
*like*.  Often on the first page of hits I will pick the second, third, or 
fifth one, simply because I recognize it as a quality link.  Oftentimes the 
first hit I recognize right away as something that going to be useless for 
me.

Will





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