On 6 Nov 2010, at 17:43, Thomas Dalton wrote: > On 6 November 2010 17:07, Liam Wyatt <liamwy...@gmail.com> wrote: >> ads there would be able >> to be served in a way that is both relevant to the end-user (based on the >> term being searched for) > > That's a big problem. To use a somewhat clichéd example, we should not > be showing adverts for either Coca-cola or Pepsi to people searching > for "coke".
Precisely. Having adverts on the search page could have a serious impact on neutral point of view, even if indirectly. Another point of view/consideration: if an article doesn't yet exist on a specific organisation/person, then being able to find its website by the Wikipedia search engine might encourage the creation of an article on that organisation - so people could effectively pay for creating new Wikipedia articles on their organisations. Ideally, WP:NOTE wouldn't let that happen though, so that might even be a good thing. ;-) Mike _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
