[WikiEN-l] Google thinks Wikipedia is a news source

[Joe Anderson]

On 2009-06-08 17:47:10 +0100, Andrew Turvey 
<andrewrturvey at googlemail.com> said:

> 
> ----- "Joe Anderson" <computerjoe at gmail.com> wrote:
>> From: "Joe Anderson" <computerjoe at gmail.com>
>> To: wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>> Sent: Monday, 8 June, 2009 17:18:29 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal
>> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Google thinks Wikipedia is a news source
>> 
>> On 2009-06-07 08:48:26 +0100, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> said:
>> 
>>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/chiropractic/3601011581/
>>> 
>> 
>> Could someone speak to Google?
>> 
>> Surely isn't this entering Wikinews' territory somewhat?
> 
> Why? The more Wikimedia content is made available to others the better, 
> surely? This is a great endorsement of our material.
> 
> If anyone complained, all they'd do is take Wikipedia off their list. 
> They wouldn't necessarily add Wikinews.
> 
> Andrew
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Wikinews is carried by Google, fyi. So it may be confusing for them to 
see two WMF links.