[Wikipedia-l] Fw: Re:Suggest a Site or Search Engine

[lcrocker at nupedia.com]

But would Liza have been able to fool the count if, instead of being 
personally tutored by Higgins, she just asked the advice of 100 
different people how to do it?  Hmm...

Let's not let our vision of the future blind us to the realities of 
the present.  The process of Wikipedia will, in a few years, produce 
vast quantities of good information that will be possible to assemble 
into a great product or two.  But the present state of Wikipedia 
really isn't a useful product, and pretending it is just gets us 
slammed--quite fairly--as we got at Kuro5hin.  If we're going to sell 
it, let's sell what it actually is--a project, not a product.  It's 
WAY too early to be suggesting Wikipedia to anything like Ask Jeeves 
or Copernic or other real products.  In 3 or 4 years, maybe.

>A song immediately pops to mind: "Just you wait, 'enry 'iggins, just 
you
>wait...you'll be sorry, 'enry 'iggins, just you wait..."
>
>:-)
>
>Larry
>
>On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, wojtek pobratyn wrote:
>
>> I suggested wikipedia to copernic.com. This is the reply I got. 
Oh, well...
>>
>> WojPob
>>
>> engines2 at copernic.com napisa³:
>>
>> >Hello,
>> > Thank you for contributing to our continuous effort to ensure 
that Copernic.com products always meet the highest quality standards.
>> >
>> > Here are the sites you have suggested. Note that a brief comment 
will indicate how your suggestions are or was processed.
>> >
>> > Url:      http://www.wikipedia.com/
>> > Category: encyclopedias
>> > Remark:   -The site you have suggested does not meet the quality 
requirements we have set for our products.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Best regards,
>> >
>> > Information Source Team
>> > engines at copernic.com
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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