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The Google monster contiues to grow, and now they are setting their sites on Wikipedia's market. Here's info from the official Google blog: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/encouraging-people-to-contribute.htmlAnd here's a news article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,316902,00.htmlSo, will Google eventually begin filtering Wikipedia results from the SERP's? After all, they are looking for "Knol" to be a profit maker. How much traffic will Wikipedia lose if Google filters Wikipedia results? If Google filters Wikipedia results will there be a pending lawsuit? Can Google defend itself by claiming an algorithm change, or will they be hit with restraint of trade issues? That's a big stretch, but after all this will be in U.S. courts. |
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« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2007, 08:23:02 PM » |
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Interesting, pretty much a straight forward conflict of interest (although they already have several of them!)
Will they give themselves a boost in the SERPS?
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« Reply #2 on: December 17, 2007, 06:30:58 AM » |
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Does not surprise me at all. Always said they would do what they want to do when they want to do it without regards to anybody else.
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« Reply #3 on: December 17, 2007, 08:25:26 AM » |
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I read somewher that Wiki is the 5th most searched site - guess I'll have to write for Google as well  |
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« Reply #4 on: December 20, 2007, 01:00:40 PM » |
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leave it to google and microsoft to steal peoples ideas and make them better
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« Reply #5 on: January 15, 2008, 07:56:07 PM » |
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Isn't that the Google way?
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« Reply #6 on: January 22, 2008, 04:14:57 PM » |
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I think they should not just concentrate in money making also be ethical
according to me its stealing people's ideas
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« Reply #7 on: February 14, 2008, 02:43:31 PM » |
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Google is your friend, follow the google way.
Actually I can't hate. Google search made me a couple of bucks.
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« Reply #8 on: July 10, 2008, 11:06:27 PM » |
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I think they should not just concentrate in money making also be ethical
according to me its stealing people's ideas
I wouldn't hold my breath Google is about making money not being ethical. See imprisoned Chinese bloggers for proof. |
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« Reply #9 on: July 15, 2008, 12:17:04 PM » |
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If they said it was something to do with their algorithm, can the trade standards look at the algorithm to check and look at log fiels for change?
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« Reply #10 on: August 12, 2008, 07:16:11 AM » |
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good topic but with google's KNOL, people will have more reference for information. that's the one i see the issue.
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« Reply #11 on: August 14, 2008, 08:37:07 AM » |
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The Google monster contiues to grow, and now they are setting their sites on Wikipedia's market. Here's info from the official Google blog: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/encouraging-people-to-contribute.htmlAnd here's a news article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,316902,00.htmlSo, will Google eventually begin filtering Wikipedia results from the SERP's? After all, they are looking for "Knol" to be a profit maker. How much traffic will Wikipedia lose if Google filters Wikipedia results? If Google filters Wikipedia results will there be a pending lawsuit? Can Google defend itself by claiming an algorithm change, or will they be hit with restraint of trade issues? That's a big stretch, but after all this will be in U.S. courts. Wikipedia is like an online encyclopedia right? Why the heck would google kill it? |
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« Reply #12 on: August 14, 2008, 10:06:23 AM » |
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Because it is eating into their search market. Quite a few people use it for far more related topic subjects. I have at least 30 pages on Wiki in my favourites. It is a far more comprehensive search system on general knowledge than Google will ever be.
How big is Wikipedia?Shortcut:
WP:OFAQ#BIG
Wikipedia currently has 2,488,249 articles in total in the English version alone (this article count is also available on the main page). A comparison of Wikipedia, the Encyclopedia Britannica and Microsoft's Encarta showed that Wikipedia had about 1,400,000 articles with 340 million words. The Britannica had about 85,000 articles with 55 million words. Encarta had about 63,000 articles and 40 million words to date. See: Wikipedia:Size comparisons.
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« Reply #13 on: August 28, 2008, 04:47:22 AM » |
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Because it is eating into their search market. Quite a few people use it for far more related topic subjects. I have at least 30 pages on Wiki in my favourites. It is a far more comprehensive search system on general knowledge than Google will ever be.
How big is Wikipedia?Shortcut:
WP:OFAQ#BIG
Wikipedia currently has 2,488,249 articles in total in the English version alone (this article count is also available on the main page). A comparison of Wikipedia, the Encyclopedia Britannica and Microsoft's Encarta showed that Wikipedia had about 1,400,000 articles with 340 million words. The Britannica had about 85,000 articles with 55 million words. Encarta had about 63,000 articles and 40 million words to date. See: Wikipedia:Size comparisons.
Whoa!! Wikipedia is Huge!! So if Wikipedia is eating too much resources and few people use it, then that reason is enough to kill it? Well, I agree to that... If I was Google, why would I let a website eat too much of my resources when in fact few people access it.. |
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« Reply #14 on: August 28, 2008, 03:40:35 PM » |
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Google is your friend, follow the google way.
Actually I can't hate. Google search made me a couple of bucks.
I have learned a valuable lesson when it comes to Google: Re-work how I do things with my own clients based on what Google decides to change. EX: Did anyone see anything strange last Friday, the 22nd when checking rankings for any of your clients? I don't know about you folks on the better side of the pond (I love going to the U.K. having gone for vacation there 4 of the past 7 years), but over here we lost all use of SEO for Firefox, Alexa, and PageRank. Luckily it was corrected by the following Monday (the 25th). Still, I had to set up weekly rank reports for my clients. Instead of waiting hoping for a patch to those add-ins plus the few other applications I use, I asked if one of my web guys can code up a script to do this manually. Even though it slowed down how long it would take to effectively garner enough information to put in the reports, I dealt with it and shifted gears accordingly. |
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