Lovely work.

On Mar 11, 2016 5:32 PM, "Dan Garry" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 11 March 2016 at 10:52, ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) <[email protected]>
wrote:
> >
> > Failed my dream :(
> >
> > Any string in any language in any wikipedia project. How far is my
dream?
> >
>
> I share your dream! :-)
>
> Unfortunately, the dream is quite far away from reality. Querying every
> search index would put a big performance strain on the search servers.

Perhaps you could do this w two queries, one to a composite index that is
only updated weekly.

> Additionally, it would likely return you a bunch of really irrelevant
results,

Make this opt-in, add a different background color for results from the
all-language index, & divide their search-relevance by a
language-prominence factor...

+SJ
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