Not having seen the column, I can only guess, but if the WP article on X invariably appears at the top of a search for "X", then no doubt some people will get in the habit of starting their searches at wikipedia.org instead of google.com. However, in practice this only works for general information searches, not shopping for products or digging up dirt on (heh-heh) non-notable people, so Google's business is hardly imperiled.
Stan
Fred Bauder wrote:
We are destined for the top ten. However as we show no ambition to serve as a general search engine Google will not be "swallowed".
Fred
On Oct 5, 2005, at 2:27 PM, charles matthews wrote:
Title of a column in today's London Independent, by technology correspondent Charles Arthur. Oh, BTW, it's favourable to WP.
Charles
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