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I searched a few things, one being the project im working on now and i discovered very interesting things that lead me to book mark the results. One of the results even made me laugh and one lead me to some information i had no idea about ! Its an interesting project and i book marked your URL to discover things i normally might not so great job. I guess just like the physical world the deeper and deeper you go the m…
I'm really curious to see how -- or, for you're sake, if -- the traffic decays. A front-page view on hackernews will generate that level of traffic with an exponential decay over the next few days. That being said, searches are different from views , in an exciting way for you. I used it and bookmarked it for potential discovery searches in the future. It's a very interesting idea.
I wrote a quick search addon for Firefox, so I plan on continuing to use it.
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I wrote a quick search addon for Firefox, so I plan on continuing to use it.
Awesome. Would you be able to share? We'll post it to the site..
Is it the lack of full text search on Wikipedia?
I've experimented with building a full-text search for Wikipedia. But so much of the content is just copied verbatim from the sites listed in the References and External Links, it seems not worth the effort.
The need to have Wikipedia in search engine results is perplexing. Why not just search Wikiepdia? It is certainly not slower. They even provide SSL. Is it the lack of full text search on Wikipedia? I've experimented with building a full-text search for Wikipedia. But so much of the content is just copied verbatim from the sites listed in the References and External Links, it seems not worth the effort.
The need to have Wikipedia in search engine results is perplexing. Why not just search Wikiepdia? It is certainly not slower. They even provide SSL. Is it the lack of full text search on Wikipedia? I've experimented with building a full-text search for Wikipedia. But so much of the content is just copied verbatim from the sites listed in the References and External Links, it seems not worth the effort.
Because Google is better searching Wikipedia than Wikipedia is.
If Wikipedia had full-text search, with a results page that looked like Google, and it was as fast as Google, would you use it?
Consider that Wikipedia is not, AFAIK, collecting your search data to serve you advertisements.
I have found that there's very few Wikipedia pages I can't pull up with a Wikipedia "search" that I could only get with a Google search.
e.g. [your browser] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/search_term =one step
versus
[your browser] http://www.google.com/search?q=search_term then finding the right result and clicking it =two steps