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

[Jimmy Wales]

The way I look at it is that people will want to be able to work on 
shaping the results from their own local perspective.  (And ideally, 
"local" can mean more than just language and geography, but those two 
are quite important.)

But it is about "shaping" not "excluding".

peter burden wrote:
> John McCormac wrote:
>> Will Wikia have an more US focus with .com/net/org/biz/info being the 
>> primary search targets? Or will each country have its own SE as in the 
>> "pages from $country" thing with Google etc? Has such a question been 
>> considered or is it way down the list?
>>
>>   
> This suggests that it is possible, accurately, to determine the country 
> of a web-site.
> This isn't possible. Neither DNS nor IP block based geo-coding will 
> deliver the information
> for a variety of reasons. And should a national SE ignore global 
> content? If I (in England)
> am searching for a restaurant, I'm clearly not interested in those in 
> Seattle, but if I'm
> searching for information about a computing problem, I really am 
> interested in what
> a certain company in the Seattle area might have to say.
> 
> Identifying the language of a WWW page seems a reasonable task however 
> and such
> information should be part of the metadata saved for every known page. 
> Character
> codings should not be a big problem either, a decision at this stage to 
> convert
> all incoming text (including HTML entities) to something such as UTF-8 will
> repay dividends and shouldn't prove expensive or contentious.
>> Regards...jmcc
>>   
> 
> 
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