WikiWax Index to Wikipedia December 1, 2005
Posted by Andy Roberts in : tools, Wiki , trackbackI learned of the existance of this fast index to Wikipedia not from an online link or blog but by noticing over somebody’s shoulder who has it set as his homepage.
Wikiwax fulfils one simple function and does it well. You know the way Wikipedia can be really slow to load sometimes, what with getting how ever many billion hits per day to its database , and how the search box isn’t terribly useful? That’s where Wikiwax comes in. They have cached an index of all the pages from Wikipedia and also employed ‘LookAhead’ which starts searching as soon as you start typing. The result is that you can identify the correct name of a Wikipedia page you want to read before accessing the site proper, resulting in manifold reduction of wasted time waiting for responses.
WikiWax Index to Wikipedia — using LookAhead from SurfWax
Could also be useful for just browsing the possibilities amongst however many million pages there are on the Free Encyclopedia these days.
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Nice. Pity you can’t press down to scroll to one of the options though.
But definately useful, especially with all the disambiguations pages on Wikipedia. They should find a way of removing the redirects from their index though.