Wikimedia could also not maintain 501(c)3 status that way.
Food for thought.
On 10/23/07, Jason Calacanis jason@calacanis.com wrote:
With the risk of sounding like a broken record... :-) Mozilla announced (confirmed) they are making over $50M a year from their search box while Wikipedia struggles over fund raising on a regular basis.
Some thoughts:
- Wikipedia would make $100M+ if they put on Google Adsense on every
page--easily. 2. Wikipedia could let users choose to turn ads on or off. 3. Wikipedia would make at least 20M if Wikipedia used Google Adsense for just search (which, ironically is what many wikipedia folks do anyway... search google for site:wikipedia.com). 4. If Wikipedia folks were concerned about being beholden to just Google we could setup a system to rotate ads from Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc. randomly (text ads of course). 5. If folks are concerned about the content of ads it is easy enough to block certain advertisers.
More here: http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/mitchell/archives/2007/10/beyond_sustainabili...
Anyway, if folks from the foundation ever want help on these things I'm available to consult for free and have setup deals like these (i.e. between Netscape/AOL/Weblogs, Inc. and Google)
Thoughts?
Best j
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