On 4/18/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 18/04/07, Info Control infodmz@gmail.com wrote:
On the non-extremist flip side, Wikipedia's massive Google Rank was
built on
the backs of people linking to articles from their own sites. Some
allowance
of this isn't a bad thing or endorsement of anything, it's basic
netiquette.
This assumes Google Rank is a good thing for us. I would question this.
Why would you question it? It's part of the success of Wikipedia, whether people would *like* to concede or admit it. The symbiotic relationship between WP, the search engines, and the interlinking of websites. Without the engine of millions of links into Wikipedia, it wouldn't be as highly ranked in all the search engines... for, well, everything.
Any search at all that you do, if an article exists will return en.wikipedia.org in the top 1-5 results. On all search engines. Is this a bad thing?
Note: not advocating spamming here.