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a statistic I'd be interested in: what percentage of searches can be answered computationally cheap. As in: Wikipedia title index, simple word lookup dictionaries. Indices that could complement a caching search-engine proxy to not hit its origin crawl repository.

A study[1] by wikipedia done with DDG notes it showed up in the top5 results and information module for ~13% of searches with a click-through rate for each at ~8% - so a total of ~16% click-through rate. Granted, that is not a number gained from title searches but the whole articles.

[1]: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/09/23/searching-for-wikipedi...



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