[WikiEN-l] Re: Search function

Sun Aug 3 06:42:25 UTC 2003

Try using google.  It's usually months out of date; you have to put 
site:wikipedia.org in there manually to find anything that's actually 
on the Wikipedia; it comes up with gobs of results, many of which are 
in languages you can't read.  And it's fast!  For instance, according 
to google, my search came up in no time at all:

 >Your search - "teng hsiao ping" site:wikipedia.org - did not match any 
 >documents.
 >
 >Suggestions:
 >
 >- Make sure all words are spelled correctly.
 >- Try different keywords.
 >- Try more general keywords.
 >- Try fewer keywords.
 >
 >Also, you can try Google Answers for expert help with your search.

How easy is that?

(don't tell me, you're one of those folks who's hung up on blaming 
browsers when the problem's with the server.)

-John "Hephaestos" Robinson (who doesn't work for google either, but 
one's probably better able to tell it in my case.)

 >> It's definitely '''not''' easy to find articles without Wikipedia's 
search
 >> facility  I just typed in "[[continental breakfast]]", not knowing 
that such
 >> an article does not exist (yet) and was referred to [[Departments of 
the
 >> Continental Army]]
 >
 >Try using google. It's fast; it doesn't cause Wikipedia to slow down; 
it gives >vastly
 >better content summaries; and it's much better at evaluating the 
relative >importance
 >of pages. For example, if I do a google search for "continental 
breakfast", I >get two
 >hits, in under a second: [[breakfast]], and [[Full English 
breakfast]]. >Parfait!
 >
 >How easy is that?
 >(don't tell me, you're on some browser where the google taskbar 
doesn't play, >or
 >something - in which case, sorry...)
 >
 >-Martin "MyRedDice" Harper