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

[Carcharoth]

On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 12:28 AM, AGK <wikiagk at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 20 May 2010 16:23, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Yeah, but are they using the search box or using Google?
>
> A moot question. There is no excuse for having Wikipedia make do with
> a search box that is at best odd—and at worst an obstruction to our
> reader's searches. What bothers me is that the search function we had
> until a week ago was *perfectly fine*. Seemingly to move the box from
> the left of the page to the top required a (detrimental) restructure
> of its basic behaviour.

What I meant was that the number of page views can't be related to use
of the internal search function, because so many people arrive from
clicking a result they find in Google. But I'm sure those tracking the
data from before and after for use of the search box know that, and
you are right that the search box usability and function should still
be optimised to serve those that use it.

Carcharoth