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

[Jimmy Wales]

John McCormac wrote:
> 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.

Yes, I agree.