I've just tested two searches in google. "Rick Santorum" had our
article on the person in second place and our article on the neologism
in third place. For "Santorum" we again had the second and third
spots, but the order was reversed. In both cases Google gave prime
place to a website about the neologism, that website is not part of
wikimedia.
If I was Rick Santorum I'd be asking Google why both queries gave the
number one hit they they gave, but that surely is between him and
Google.
As for Kerry, the first Wikipedia hit is for
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_Kerry and there are several other
people places and things called Kerry in the first few pages. On that
search I didn't spot either a negative page about him, or our article
about the controversy, so I don't know which comes higher in Google
ranking for Kerry. But for "kerry swift boat" the first two hits are
both Wikipedia. In my experience Wikipedia articles often come top or
close to it in Google searches, and if I was Rick Santorum I would be
hoping that the Wikipedia article on the neologism one day overtook
the article that currently comes up top in a "Santorum" or "Rick
Santorum" search.
WSC
On 4 June 2011 09:31, James Farrar <james.farrar(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 4 June 2011 04:47, Rob <gamaliel8(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Ken Arromdee
<arromdee(a)rahul.net> wrote:
Part of it is a matter of degree. The article on
the John Kerry controversy
isn't the #2 search for "Kerry" on the Internet.
And whenever people mention this, they conveniently forget to mention
that the #1 result is Dan Savage's website.
As may be.
The Wikipedia article for the word ranks above the article for the
person; ergo, something is wrong.
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