On 20 May 2010 19:19, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> If we're in a proposal mood: Why not make it go, but if it go-es
> rather than takes you to special search put a small box of other
> search results above the article. (along with your advanced button,
> and an obvious close X to get rid of it if
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Andrew Gray wrote:
> Relatedly, a proposal!
>
> Search box, two buttons. One, "search" or "go", acts as the old
> mixed-search "go" button - it is a direct leap to that title, else
> falling back on the search. The second button is "advanced"; it takes
> the conten
On 19 May 2010 15:51, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
> ... Yes, it makes a lot of sense that there would be such a button in
> Wikipedia, because quite a lot of the people who type "obama" probably
> just want the article about the president (but someone should research
> how many exactly). Forcing them
Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 17:40, Steve Summit wrote:
>
>> Carcharoth wrote:
>>
>>> not "search" functionality, but seeing as Google's default is
>>> "search" not "go", I suspect more people are used to getting a list
>>> of search results and clicking the top one tha
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 17:40, Steve Summit wrote:
>
> Carcharoth wrote:
> > I suppose the idea is that most people using that search box want
> > "go" functionality,
>
> Many tech-savvy editors, perhaps, but certainly not most readers.
>
> > not "search" functionality, but seeing as Google's defa
Carcharoth wrote:
> I suppose the idea is that most people using that search box want
> "go" functionality,
Many tech-savvy editors, perhaps, but certainly not most readers.
> not "search" functionality, but seeing as Google's default is
> "search" not "go", I suspect more people are used to gett
