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some reasons why Wikipedia in itself does not offer full-text searching
(unless there is full text search now, this goes back in- also no need to mention an IP number twice in the intro) |
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Finally, Wikipedia has no full text search facility, due to deficiencies of the [[mediawiki]] software. | Finally, Wikipedia has no full text search facility, due to deficiencies of the [[mediawiki]] software. | ||
:You can do full text searches using '''Google''' or '''Yahoo'''. Full text searching from the [[MySQL]] database became possible starting from version 4.0, which is now in use at [[Wikipedia]], but the lack of this feature is surely related to the heavy load on the servers. | |||
===Usefulness:=== | ===Usefulness:=== | ||