[WikiEN-l] Long-term searchability of the internet

[Ian Woollard]

On 15/01/2011, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
> To take a specific example, I very occasionally come across names of
> people or topics where it is next-to-impossible to find out anything
> meaningful about them because the name is identical to that of someone
> else. Sometimes this is companies that name themselves after something
> well-known and any search is swamped by hits to that well-known
> namesake. Other times, it is someone more famous swamping a relatively
> obscure person - a recent example I found here is the physicist Otto
> Klemperer. Despite having the name and profession, it is remarkably
> difficult to find information about the physicist as opposed to the
> composer. If I had a birth year, it would be much easier, of course.

That's the primary advantage of an encyclopedia of course. It doesn't
rely much on the vagaries of English.

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-Ian Woollard