On 15 Feb 2016, at 17:10, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, The notion that WMF should out google Google is stupid, certainly at that kind of money.
I'm still confused about what kind of 'search engine' is actually being proposed here. Is it: 1) Wikimedia specific: index all of Wikimedia's content and make that easier for users of the sites to find 2) Wikimedia + selected others: like (1), but also allow some other like-minded sources into the mix 3) Google-scale: index everything (duckduckgo-like) ... or somewhere on the scale between those points?
A lot of people seem to be assuming (3), others are liking the idea of (1), but (2) (or maybe (1) leading to (2)) might be closer to the reality?
Thanks, Mike