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_search... (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_the... (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/Search... ("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@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.pdfhttp://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.longhttp://jamia.bmj.com/content/16/4/471.long
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-in-the-serps-appears-on-page-1-for-60-of-informational-34-transactional-queries/
http://www.**intelligentpositioning.com/**blog/2012/02/wikipedia-page-** one-of-google-uk-for-99-of-**searches/http://www.intelligentpositioning.com/blog/2012/02/wikipedia-page-one-of-google-uk-for-99-of-searches/
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.htmlhttp://jamia.bmj.com/content/16/4/471/T1.expansion.html
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%3Anonehttp://duckduckgo.com/?q=Alzheimer+region%3Anone
See also: http://dontbubble.us/
/Finn
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