On 24/01/07, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:
But with that said, I have to agree with Bryan: Wikipedia is not great because it has high pagerank. It is great because it has great content. Personally, I think Wikipedia's pagerank is too high: Wikipedia results tend to swamp the first page of many of the Google searches I do, to the detriment of the other sites I might also want to find. If the "boycott" as any effect, it won't bother me, or hurt Wikipedia, at all.
Note that just a couple of years ago, we had the opposite problem: googling on stuff that should have brought up the Wikipedia page instead brought up three pages of Wikipedia mirror sites!
- d.