[WikiEN-l] Search function (I still don't get it)

Sun Aug 3 21:47:00 UTC 2003

Kurt-
> Using Google may be okay -- thanks for the various hints -- , but coming
> back to Wikipedia's own search facility, why do I get "Ann-Marie MacDonald"
> when I type in "Ann-Margret" (and there '''is''' an article with exactly
> this title)?

Are you sure you typed "Ann-Margret"? I get the article as expected. On  
the other hand, if I type "Ann Margret" I get to the article about  
MacDonald (unfortunately MySQL's relevance sorting isn't so great, so it's  
not the closest match). Perhaps a redirect should be created?

Regards,

Erik