[WikiEN-l] Updated new search interface on the prototype

Carcharoth carcharothwp at googlemail.com
Thu May 20 15:23:17 UTC 2010


Yeah, but are they using the search box or using Google?

Carcharoth

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Amory Meltzer <amorymeltzer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, according to Google, there are somewhere between 1.5 and 1.8
> billion internet users in the world.  If we ignore those numbers and
> say only 1B use the internet, then according to Alex wikipedia.org
> gets about 13.5% of internet users.  That's 135 million users.  We
> definitely don't have anywhere near even 1 million "expert" users.  Of
> course, it depends how you define expert but if we have 10,000 expert
> users/editors, then that pales in comparison to the somewhere between
> 200 and 240 million people viewing the website.
>
> ~A
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:57, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 20 May 2010 15:51, William Pietri <william at scissor.com> wrote:
>>
>>> But
>>> assuming a 99:1 novice to expert ratio for our traffic, the current
>>> approach must have saved an awful lot of extra clicks from novices.
>>
>>
>> Ahh ... do we have numbers from our logs for that assertion?
>>
>>
>> - d.
>>
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