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Reddit/Wikipedia search are an order of magnitude worse than Google

• commoner 7y ago
  Wikipedia search works well for me. The site search is exhaustive, returning every single page matching the query. For topics in the news recently, all changes are propagated to Wikipedia's search index immediately, while Google takes longer to recognize changes.
• jolmg 7y ago
  I don't know about Reddit, but for Wikipedia I just write a guess for the title of the article I'm looking for, and if I'm not redirected to the proper title of the article, then I'm normally sent to a disambiguation page. I've never found myself in need of something like Google for Wikipedia.
  • shawabawa3 7y ago
    That works if you know the article you want, but for something more abstract wiki search is terrible I just came up with this example on the spot, searching wikipedia for "inventor of paracetamol", the first result on wiki search is "Polymorphism", then "Diphenhydramine", then "List of Suicides", then "Menstruation" Searching google for "inventor of paracetamol wiki" links to the wikipedia Paracetamol page subsection History
    • jolmg 7y ago
      Oh, indeed. I think Wiki's search is based on just the titles and probably their redirection aliases, not the article bodies.