[WikiEN-l] Re: Google search

Wed Aug 6 16:58:03 UTC 2003

An apology: sorry for the superfluous email and wasted bandwidth.  I 
just read Brion Vibber's announcement of the temporary search in the 
most recent WikiEN-l digest. 

Thanks again Brion, it looks great!

Regards,
Harris7

8/6/03 10:49:12 AM, Chris Harris <harris7 at io.com> wrote:

>Well, I realize I'm a newbie and all... but <sniff> I guess I'll have to just 
>reply to my own email since nobody will talk to me :-)
>
>I just noticed the search button is now working, and working great!  A 
big 
>Thank You to the responsible developer!!
>
>One followup newbie question:  I didn't see the search "fix" announced 
>on Wikipedia:Announcements - is there some other place that 
>Wikipedia/software announcements are made?  Or maybe there is 
>another maillist with such announcements?
>
>Thanks,
>Harris7
>
>
>8/5/03 2:09:53 PM, Chris Harris <harris7 at io.com> wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>In the "not found" screen ("No page with this exact title 
>>exists, trying full text search. Well, I would be trying a full text 
>>search here... Google and run a search on 
>>site:wikipedia.org -- the results will be outdated and 
>>incomplete, though.") wouldn't it be much friendlier to send 
>>the user directly to the following link?  I think I copied this 
>>from the old search or "not found" screen:
>>
>>http://www.google.com/custom?
>>sa=Google+Search&domains=wikipedia.org&sitesearch=
>>wikipedia.org
>>
>>Regards,
>> Harris7
>>
>
>