Re: Have you all gone crazy? Was: On being web-friendly and why info must die

[Tom]

David Kastrup <dak <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> Google substitutes better quality with graceful failure based on
> heuristics.  That works for some things better than others.  It
> certainly will not help much replacing a "concept index" since the whole
> point of a concept index is _not_ to be based on exact keywords.
> 

Which is also true for Google, beacuse it automatically finds
alternate keywords (e.g. close file -> kill buffer) and it does it
better than any manually compiled index, because it takes into 
account lots more variations.

I think the main point is what Stephen brough up earlier, that
trying to add all variations to the index is a waste of time,
because new users can (and do) use Google to find things,
while experienced users know where to look in the manual, and
they can also use Google of course.

So the effort of expanding the index to contain more variation
of terminology is much better spent on improving other areas
of Emacs instead.