On 4/18/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 18/04/07, Info Control <infodmz(a)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.