On 6/27/06, Rob Church <robchur(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 27/06/06, Gregory Maxwell
<gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
By what definition of hold up?
Yes it's does seem to be providing results faster than ever but they
haven't stopped being low quality and nearly useless..
You mean the indexing's too out of date, or something else?
Indexing is out of date, searching for multiple words gives the union
not the intersection, if there is stemming it is broken, and no
ability to do fuzzy matching (no soundex or double metaphone equal)
means that if you don't spell something the same as the article (or
you don't know how to spell it, a top use for search...) then you
don't get results.. oh and searching other namespaces is broken ( for
example
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?ns8=1&search=There&full…)=Search).
Due to these factors it is always more useful to use google to search Wikipedia.
The bug that
where certain characters in the excerpt halt the display of more
results still exists as well.
Is this known on BugZilla?
I'm not sure. It's easy to reproduce, but hard to pin down when things
aren't up to date. I recall that Kate knew about it. ::shrugs::.