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For such a simple question, why wouldn't you just use Wikipedia? In any event, neither a blog nor Wikipedia would likely be a "primary source". Maybe somethin
by 3xblah 7y ago
For such a simple question, why wouldn't you just use Wikipedia?
In any event, neither a blog nor Wikipedia would likely be a "primary source". Maybe something like a driver license would be a primary source.
It could be that you have a "philosphical objection" to "copy-pasted crap and artifically inflated content". I wonder if Google could have a role in encouraging the continued existence of this stuff. The effective opacity it creates seemingly justifies having an entity like Google.
- ummonk 7y agoI can’t just enter my question in to Wikipedia and get an answer back, as I can with google as the default search bar. Why would I use Wikipedia when it is more work than googling?
- 3xblah 7y agoAssuming you entered the name of an actor that has a corresponding Wikipedia entry you would be redirected to the actor's Wikipedia page that, in most cases, shows the actor's date of birth and calculates the age for you. Even when I entered the actor's name plus the term "age" and was redirected to the Wikipedia search results, I could still see the actor's page as the third result and his date of birth in the summary text. As for why anyone would want to search some things using Wikipedia versus Google, I can think of a few reasons. I cannot speak for other users however. I have a script I wrote to search Wikipedia from the command line. For those who care, one can strip out "X-Client-IP" from the returned page html before opening the page in a browser.