Google is trying out another interface on a test site: http://www.searchmash.com/
They are looking for peoples feedback as to what features they like in it. Personally I like the way you can choose to open in another window and the wikipedia box.
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by Jop on Tue Nov 14, 2006 10:19 am
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by arn0ld on Fri Dec 01, 2006 8:49 pm
just wondering.. Why does it have to be wikipedia and not webopaedia or about.com?
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by xplizion on Tue Dec 05, 2006 1:28 pm
Wikipedia wrote:The name is a portmanteau of the words wiki and encyclopedia
portmanteau : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portmanteau
wiki : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
encyclopedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia
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by silentguy on Tue Dec 05, 2006 6:29 pm
xplizion wrote:Wikipedia wrote:The name is a portmanteau of the words wiki and encyclopedia
Thanks for the info, but i think the question was not, why it's called wikipedia, but rather, why searchmash decided to USE wikipedia instead of another information source...
i guess they use wikipedia cause wikipedia is rather well known... ask somewhere who's looking for info online where he tries to find it and i bet most of them will either say wikipedia or google...
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by xplizion on Tue Dec 05, 2006 8:56 pm
lol ok misunderstood the question completely 
ye true I guess wikipedia is the most widely used online encyclopedia
maybe better for the search engine to give users the possibility to choose his or hers own encyclopedia
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ye true I guess wikipedia is the most widely used online encyclopedia
maybe better for the search engine to give users the possibility to choose his or hers own encyclopedia
/xplizion
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