I have set up two custom search engines using google.com/cse One searches the J6 dictionary: http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=016147560673599814097:rhtkeo7p3cy
The other searches the J7 dictionary: http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=016147560673599814097:rk5jmigdjse I have noticed that searches in the J7 dictionary do not reveal pages which are duplicates of the J6 dictionary. Furthermore, when I perform generic google searches restricted to just these dictionaries, my results are consistent with the behavior of the custom search engines. Some of the J7 pages are [currently] not available as google search results. And, to be fair to google, when mapping from content to url they have to pick a single url to represent that content (otherwise they are intensely vulnerable to irrelevant duplication). But this suggests that if we want the J7 dictionary to be relevant to people performing arbitrary searches we should cross link it with the J6 dictionary. In the general case, we cannot know what url google will decide. Doe noq, the J6 dictionary has more external links into it than the J7 dictionary. But that could be a temporary situation. There's also an issue of historical continuity - the current format of the dictionary closely adheres to its original form, which did not include any provisions for finding the same page in a different version of the dictionary. Perhaps the right way to address this issue is to add some kind of javascript driven popup menu to the page's markup, so that the cross-version links to the companion page would not take up space when it's not in use? But it might also be possible to implement this using css. Does this [adding a popup to let the reader select the dictionary version] seem like a reasonable course of action? Does it need deeper discussion of unresolved issues? Thanks, -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
