Re: [Fsfe-uk] Mac OS X refund

[Jon Grant]

Hi·

> I was watching BBC Click this morning (will be repeated on News 24
> tomorrow and Sunday, then BBC World 1530 Monday) and Jimmy Wales said
> Wikia Search would be open source.  Whether that means free software,
> I don't know, but you can already do better than Google for
> first-choice search anyway... (some other engines have less churn and
> behave more ethically, but I acknowledge Google seems to have the
> largest database indexed now).

He told me about his search idea before it got announced when I pointed 
out how bad the searching was on wikipedia. 18 months on it is still as 
bad. Its much better to use google and add inurl:wikipedia.org. A user 
edited index will have the same problems that Yahoo had, and I'm not 
sure I'd want someone's edited list of information links.

Wikipedia has so much information, but its not stored in the right 
formats. Equations are images, data is in HTML tables etc etc. It could 
be so much better if data was flagged as that, rather than as text mark-up.

Kind regards, Jon