[WikiEN-l] Re: Cruft

Mon Sep 12 20:25:47 UTC 2005

I agree, and have often been annoyed that the option to use google
(and now yahoo) to help you search is only available in certain
situations.

Jack (Sam Spade)

On 9/12/05, MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This isn't, of course, due to mergism - if the article had been
> > merged, the redirect would've remained. But it illustrates the
> > limitations of the search engine, and highlights the danger of trying
> > to write large articles covering lots of stuff, rather than seperate,
> > interlinked articles.
> >
> >
> > Dan
> >
> I've seen lots of people unfamiliar with Wikipedia complain because
> the search engine doesn't list any close matches and the go button
> confuses them too.
> 
> Regardless of whether mergism is good or not, I think the search
> engine could use some upgrading.
> 
> -Mgm
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