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@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@copernic.com
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