On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 8:23 PM, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Most of the typos for "MySpace.com" and "google.com" had been created > and deleted by db-R3 (typo unlikely to happen in real life). I > recreated them with an edit summary pointing to that page, as evidence > that people's typing really is consistently much worse than we'd like > to think ... > > There is an argument that MediaWiki should really just have a very good natural language search engine that can guess what users are looking for, despite any typos. There's an even better argument that a hand-built search engine built by thousands of monkeys addressing every query individually will outperform it every time. Steve _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
