[Search-l] Wikia - Global focus or country level search?

[John McCormac]

Jimmy Wales wrote:
> I think good quality demands localization, and so it needs to be 
> designed in from the start.

A local search (country level) engine needs a bit more than localisation 
to be effective. It would have to match the results to the specific 
queries coming from a particular country. That would perhaps require a 
separate index or at a highly optimised subset of a global index.

Regards...jmcc
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