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Bug 15021 - Search Engine So Poorly Deseigned It May As Well Be Broken
Search Engine So Poorly Deseigned It May As Well Be Broken
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 974
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Search (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Normal normal (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?t...
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Reported: 2008-08-03 05:15 UTC by JNS
Modified: 2008-08-04 05:59 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---


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Description JNS 2008-08-03 05:15:08 UTC
I really can't bring myself to waste my time explaining this.  The following is worth your time to read, however:

(01:08:26) Simon Sarris: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=ray-man&fulltext=Search
(01:08:29) Simon Sarris: http://www.google.com/search?q=ray-man&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS264US264
(01:08:36) Simon Sarris: those are the two searches
(01:08:38) Simon Sarris: look how GOOGLE
(01:08:43) Simon Sarris: finds the right wikipedia page
(01:08:46) Simon Sarris: before wikipedia does
(01:09:19) Simon Sarris: wikipedia's engine would be BETTER if they just googled the term that you asked for, added "+wiki" to that search, and then returned the first google result
(01:09:45) soulshinobi@gmail.com/Home: It really fucking would.
(01:12:53) soulshinobi@gmail.com/Home: Could you write that as a search engine plug-in in firefox for me?  I'd honest to god replace the wiki one with it.
Comment 1 Brion Vibber 2008-08-04 05:59:17 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 974 ***

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