Not much left to add after Finn's list, but those may be interesting as
well:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2011/October#High_searc…
(In "1000 queries, Yahoo showed the most Wikipedia results within the top
10 lists (446), followed by MSN/Live (387), Google (328), and
Ask.com
(255)".)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-03-07/In_th…
(caused
Wikipedia to rise from 7578 to 8050 (+6.2%) presences in the first search
result page, in a sample of around 60,000 keywords.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-11-06/Searc…
("Wikipedia appeared in the top 10, thus putting it on the first page of
results, on 81% of searches using Google and 77% for Yahoo.")
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportGoogle.htm ("Google
referred to our sites, through its services including search, maps, and
Google Earth, 212,902,650 page views per day, representing 41.1% of our
external page requests. ")
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 2:59 AM, Finn Årup Nielsen <fn(a)imm.dtu.dk> wrote:
Hi Phoebe (and others on the list),
On 13-11-2012 21:47, phoebe ayers wrote:
Are there any solid estimates out there of how many Google [or other]
searches have a Wikipedia article as the first
[or second or third...]
hit? Any language breakdowns of this would be super cool as well.
If you look in my "Wikipedia research and tools: Review and comments."
http://www2.imm.dtu.dk/pubdb/**views/edoc_download.php/6012/**
pdf/imm6012.pdf<http://www2.imm.dtu.dk/pubdb/views/edoc_download.php/6012/pdf/imm6012.pdf>
on page 15 "Popularity" you see a couple of studies using a sample of
pages:
"Seeking health information online: does Wikipedia matter?"
http://jamia.bmj.com/content/**16/4/471.long<http://jamia.bmj.com/conten…
http://www.conductor.com/blog/**2012/03/wikipedia-in-the-**
serps-appears-on-page-1-for-**60-of-informational-34-**
transactional-queries/<http://www.conductor.com/blog/2012/03/wikipedia-i…
http://www.**intelligentpositioning.com/**blog/2012/02/wikipedia-page-**
one-of-google-uk-for-99-of-**searches/<http://www.intelligentpositioning…
The first one reports around 35% health related queries having Wikipedia
on top of of the Google result list.
http://jamia.bmj.com/content/**16/4/471/T1.expansion.html<http://jamia.b…
I've seen offhand references to this phenomenon in many papers, but
I'm wondering if someone on this list knows
of a particularly good
estimate or reliable information.
Google has become 'bubbled'. You could try DuckDuckGo instead, e.g.,
http://duckduckgo.com/?q=**Alzheimer+region%3Anone<http://duckduckgo.com…
See also:
http://dontbubble.us/
/Finn
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