. There doesn't seem to be any
stuff about George Washington's underwear on the internet that Google has
indexed. But there are some stuff about George Washington's penis (go
figure) so we have that as example. With the search "George Washington" you
will not encounter anything about his penis in the 100,000 first hits or so.
The reason is that Google manages to figure out that there are atleast
100,000 pages that are more releveant to the search George Washington then
the pages about George Washington's penis.
I don't know why Google in almost all cases seem to, almost magically, to
figure out what you were looking for. One reason appears to be that Google
rates pages that many pages link to higher, and therefore kinda exploits
what other humans thinks are relevant. Google's search algorithm is a secret
and there are many more around that knows much more and can explain it much
better. See also [[Googlebomd]].
In anyway, the argument that bad articles will cripple the search function,
is false.
Why not? It's going to bring up every article with
the term "George
Washington" in it, and if [[George Washington's underwear]] begins ...
[[George Washington]] wore white [[boxer shorts]], then Google will
certainly pick it up.
RickK
"Eric B. Rakim" <eric_b_and_rakim(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
So, what happens when you search for "George
Washington" and "George
Washington's underwear" shows up?
RickK
It will not show up. Atleast not if google search is used. I can't test
whether it would show up with mediawiki's search algorithm, but if it does,
that algorithm would be very much broken.
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Message: 8
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 21:05:25 +0200
From: ?var Arnfj?r? Bjarmason <avarab(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Image of Gandhi
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)wikipedia.org>
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mahatma_Gandhi.jpg
"This image may not have information on its source. It may be usable
under fair use but this has yet to be verified. It might be public
domain or under a licence compatible with the GNU FDL. To the
uploader: Please provide licensing information as soon as possible.
Images without this information may be deleted in the future. If you
want to publish an image as fair use, please list it on Wikipedia:Fair
use."
We do not know.
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 08:15 -0700, Danavir Goswami (USA)
<danavir.goswami(a)pamho.net> wrote:
Dear Friends, Aug. 26,
2004
Greetings. I am a monk writing a book on celibacy---the title is "Brain
Gain" (1,000 copies) and would like to use, within the book, an image of
Gandhi I found on your website.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi
If you could be so kind as to inform me A) whether the image is in the
public domain (copyright-free), or B) if you have the ability to grant
permission for its use, or C) you could suggest how I might seek
permission.
The seminary is non profit and the publication is also not a profit
enterprise.
Thank you so much for your help.
With best regards,
Dr. Dane Holtzman
Rupanuga Vedic College (USA)
5201 Paseo, Kansas City, Missouri 64110
Tel: (816) 924-5619, (800) 340-5286, Fax: (816) 924-5640
E-mail: danavir.goswami(a)pamho.net Website:
www.rvc.edu
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Message: 9
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:53:39 -0500
From: <dpbsmith(a)verizon.net>
Subject: [WikiEN-l] Renaming VfD now under discussion...
To: <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org>
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I got enough of an encouraging reception on this list to have started a
discussion about it at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Votes_for_deletion
There does seem to be support for renaming VfD and rewriting the VfD page
notice, so I want to concentrate on that part of my proposal.
And my campaign slogan for the change is: as we currently present VfD, some
newbies are feeling _bitten_ when they should really only feel _barked at._
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Message: 10
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 16:52:19 -0400
From: Sj <2.718281828(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Renaming VfD now under discussion...
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)wikipedia.org>
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I'm all for it.
It *would* be nice to be able to tell people who scoff at WP's lack of
editorial review,
"actually, [[WP:Editorial Review]] is the three most active pages on the
site."
=sj=
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:53:39 -0500, dpbsmith(a)verizon.net
<dpbsmith(a)verizon.net> wrote:
I got enough of an encouraging reception on this
list to have started a
discussion about it at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Votes_for_deletion
There does seem to be support for renaming VfD and rewriting the VfD
page
notice, so I want to concentrate on that part of
my proposal.
And my campaign slogan for the change is: as we currently present VfD,
some
newbies are feeling _bitten_ when they should
really only feel _barked
at._
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Message: 11
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 22:08:26 +0100
From: Pete/Pcb21 <pete_pcb21_wpmail(a)pcbartlett.com>
Subject: [WikiEN-l] Re: WikiEN-l Digest, Vol 13, Issue 65
To: wikien-l(a)wikipedia.org
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Rick wrote:
Why not? It's going to bring up every
article with the term "George
Washington" in it, and if [[George
Washington's underwear]] begins ...
[[George Washington]] wore white [[boxer shorts]], then Google will
certainly pick it up.
that algorithm would be very much broken.
If Google listed it that highly (in GW's case in the first dozen pages
or so) then people are clearly interested in it, and that is a strong
argument for having the article.
Pete
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