[Search wiki] Scale of Search wiki

[Fred Bauder]

They are generally going to fail due to ambiguity. Information resolving
ambiguity is most needed, not a definitive article on the subject. See
Forum:The clogged search

Fred Bauder

> 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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