[WikiEN-l] Will Wikipedia Swallow Google?

Thu Oct 6 09:59:25 UTC 2005

Charles Matthews wrote:

>Title of a column in today's London Independent, by technology correspondent
>Charles Arthur.  Oh, BTW, it's favourable to WP.

Analyst wank: the subgenre of business and technology reporting where
a columnist comes up with a good headline then writes a flight of
fancy making it sound like a plausible idea. Ones that don't happen
are forgotten and ones that do happen make the columnist look
amazingly prescient.

That said, it does raise the issue of what people want from a search engine.

- d.