On 11/7/2010 4:09 PM, geni wrote:
As for tweak algorithmic factors firstly it's
already happened at
least once (there was a noticeable drop in wikipedia's Google SERPS
positions a few years back). Secondly since both bing and yahoo rank
wikipedia highly (in fact while I haven't checked recently for a long
time google ranked wikipedia lower than those two) it seems unlikely
that any reasonable algorithmic change would kill off wikipedia's
traffic.
I don't think there's any point in checking Bing and Yahoo
separately
anymore. I'm not sure what effect that might have on Wikipedia traffic
in and of itself, but it means there are fewer algorithms to tweak, for
good or ill.
--Michael Snow