On Jan 8, 2008 12:46 PM, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
Welcome to the black art of trying to figure out search engine algorithms. First google is a bad choice of comparison here it overanks wikipedia compared to pretty much everyone else. The most popular theory is that google is more relying on domain authority than pagerank. There are other elements such as site age and content change rate that could be causing wikipedia to rank highly. There are other theories.
For whatever it's worth ... I monitor google search rankings for WP and it's declined a lot over the last few months.