Great! Daniel Brandt will love it :D - causa sui
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 1:50 AM, Keith Old <[email protected]> wrote: > G'day folks, > > Google has announced that it has developed a custom search skin for > Wikipedia. > > > http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/contextual-search-within-wikipedia.html > > > We are excited to announce that we've built a Custom Search Wikipedia > skin<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Csewiki> that > makes it easier for you to complete your research on Wikipedia. Wikipedia > allows users to register and personalize their Wikipedia environment via > the > configuration of options and the use of styles or skins. Just log in to > Wikipedia, enable the Custom Search > skin<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Csewiki> and > you'll have quick access to relevant Google Custom Search results from > Wikipedia. With the Custom Search skin, your search results are > conveniently > placed inline on the page. After you've reviewed the results, you can > dismiss them and return to the current article of interest without having > to > switch to a different tab on your browser; you can access the relevant > Wikipedia articles right within the Wikipedia interface. > > The Custom Search skin also features contextual search — searching across > different sets of pages as you navigate Wikipedia. For Wikipedia pages with > a lot of information and links, contextual search lets you limit your > search > to only those Wikipedia pages that are linked from the current article, > focusing the results on the topic of the article. So, in addition to > getting > all matching Wikipedia articles, you can quickly drill down to contextually > relevant results using the Linked Wikipedia Pages tab. > > For example, searching for [sequence] from a Wikipedia page on > DNA<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA> provides > a list of relevant results about DNA sequences and DNA sequence alignment, > instead of the many pages about > sequences<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence_%28disambiguation%29> > (in > mathematics, poetry, music, games, etc.) that aren't relevant. Similarly, > searching within the DNA page for [bonds] gives you results in chemistry > and > biochemistry, instead of other information about financial instruments and > social sciences. This will help you perform more directed research, often > with shorter queries, and get to relevant Wikipedia articles faster. > > More in story > > -- > Keith Old > 62050121 (w) > 62825360 (h) > 0429478376 (m) > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
