[Search wiki] Scale of Search wiki

[jer]

The intent (in my opinion at least) isn't to have an article for  
every different query, but instead to provide a facility for anyone  
to provide immediate human guidance when the automated results may  
fail in some way.

Jer

On Jan 14, 2008, at 8:35 AM, Rainer Blome wrote:

> [Second try, I used the wrong sender address with the first one.]
>
> Hi.  Missing a "free" search engine, I was delighted to read of  
> Wikia Search.
> And it looks like a good beginning.
>
> Has anyone got any idea how far the concept of creating one mini  
> article per search query can be taken?  Is it possible to keep up  
> indefinitely?
>
> It appears to me that the number of different queries can quickly  
> reach millions, and billions in the long run.
> Mini articles will not be written for every query.
> What is the ratio between number of new queries and number of mini  
> articles writen?
>
> Looking for this topic, I found only this:
>> From jwales at wikia.com  Thu Jan  4 00:51:34 2007
>> peter burden wrote:
>>> the scale of the whole enterprise. Are we
>>> intending to outdo [...]? If so a long careful look at the
>>> numbers is called for.
>> Eh, I dunno.
>
> This may have been discussed elsewhere.  If so, please provide a  
> pointer.
>
> -- 
> Rainer
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