Gordon’s Place

Since I knocked up that search plugin for IE, I’ve been thinking a bit about search / the internet in general. Well, actually I’ve been thinking about wikipedia specifically. These days I’m using wikipedia all the time. It’s become my default search engine. If I’m looking for information, then most of the time, wikipedia will have it for me with just one quick search. It’s way better than trying to find information using google, and it’s the only search engine I ever use on my phone. Just in the last few hours, I’ve used it as a sports site – to get a list of the strikers playing in the world cup for the office sweep, a travel guide – to read about North Berwick where we’re spending the weekend – and as a movie guide – to answer a question about Lost.

I know there are problems with the accuracy of information, and I’m sure that as usage continues to increase, spam will become much more of a problem than it is now, but I’m starting to think that it won’t be another search engine which will steal the google crown…. wikipedia is the internet.