[Mediawiki-l] configuring search results

Mon May 8 22:11:22 UTC 2006

a at kid wrote:
> How does Wikipedia get its search results to display the way they do?
> (ie: sort by relevance instead of size of document, don't display  
> size of document in results)

Wikipedia uses a completely different search engine as the default one doesn't
scale to our load requirements.

It's not really ready for convenient third-party use at this time.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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