Thanks, Wes, for your help! 

It'd also be great to find out how often they update their cache of Wikipedia and if they show results based on something other than the latest version of any particular article.

Cheers,

Deb

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On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 9:34 AM, Wes Moran <wmoran@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Will reach out to our contact over there and see what we can come up with.

On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 8:05 PM, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Hi!

> I believe that WMF Discovery is the team that is best suited to address
> matters like this, so I am forwarding your email to the Discovery
> mailing list.

So on this: https://www.google.com/#q=gender google produces:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender Wikipedia
There are only 2 genders. Male and Female. Retrieved from
"https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gender&oldid=722247975" ...
‎Gender identity · ‎Sex and gender distinction · ‎Sex · ‎Grammatical gender

Strange thing is that google is retrieving old revision. I have no idea
how google produced that result, but given that it has a specific link,
I wonder if it's a targeted action - i.e. somebody submitted this
particular revision URL to Google.

I wonder if we can ask Google to somehow down-grade old revisions and
not consider them top results?
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