Wiki Wraps Encarta
Encarta Encyclopedia - one of the largest web-knowledge bases - will soon cease to exist. Product support will be suspended in June. And in October, Microsoft (actually, the owner) will close the site.
The MSN website also features a FAQ , which explains in detail why and when the company will suspend the activities of one of the oldest encyclopedias. One of the reasons voiced in the FAQ is “It's not the same as before. Today, users are looking for and consuming information completely different from a few years ago. ” Excuse so-so, is not it? In general, the thing is that people (mostly) do not use Encarta, but Wikipedia. Despite its several shortcomings (well, vandalism in articles or the lack of full confidence in the veracity of the information). Good.
Ps. However, the creators of Wikipedia - the Wikimedia Foundation - are also not all in the openwork. The crisis and Google hit their search engine Wikia Search .
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via techdigest
The MSN website also features a FAQ , which explains in detail why and when the company will suspend the activities of one of the oldest encyclopedias. One of the reasons voiced in the FAQ is “It's not the same as before. Today, users are looking for and consuming information completely different from a few years ago. ” Excuse so-so, is not it? In general, the thing is that people (mostly) do not use Encarta, but Wikipedia. Despite its several shortcomings (well, vandalism in articles or the lack of full confidence in the veracity of the information). Good.
Ps. However, the creators of Wikipedia - the Wikimedia Foundation - are also not all in the openwork. The crisis and Google hit their search engine Wikia Search .
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via techdigest
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/56140/
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