I was bit confused when I wrote the first post. Obviously Wikia is seperate
from Wikipedia, but I am sure it is one of its biggest benefactors too.
I saw a press release the day I saw "the grand opening" and checked the page
for news and was shocked that I was already registered and able to edit. I
tend to delete cookies after a day or two and hadn't visited Wikia in weeks.
I was bit hungover and presumed the interwiki had begun! my bad.
wikia can get you a top ten listing on google and I am not suggesting
anybody try it as joke. like wikipedia there are vigilent b and sys there.
search wikia is going to work on ratings? so no or not a lot of home spun
raters going to be out there. is it just going to be a review site or an
idea Jimbo sprung up for a bit of media?
I'm still very confused. The last time i went there on Special:Wantedpages
AltaVista was there with 5 entries.
mike
On 08/01/2008, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 08/01/2008, doc <doc.wikipedia(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:
What really confuses me is not the links between
Wikipedia and the
SearchWikia, but the lack of them. I think they/we are missing an
obvious possibility.
When I search wikia for "example", two questions arise:
1) Why is the Wikipedia article on "example" not listed? It is rated
third in Google, why not at all by wikia? Even when a type "example
wikipedia" I don't get a hit? What on earth? Wikipedia seems to be
excluded from most searches - or certainly undervalued.
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.
--
geni
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