On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Anthony <wikimail(a)inbox.org> wrote:
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:20 AM, David Gerard
<dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I know some Wikipedians were asking Google
"wtf? Could you at least
not rank us three pages behind our own mirrors?"
And Google complied, implementing a duplicate content penalty which
eliminated mirrors and forks alike (and is probably hurting Citizendium
right this very moment). My point exactly.
I thought Citizendium had declined to copy any Wikipedia content. How
then could such a algorithm tweak matter to them?
(I will note that things have gotten much better. Back in 2004 or so
if I had ran a Google search for [[Medici Bank]], the results would've
been all cluttered up by mirrors of WP; but now it's pretty rare to
run into a mirror, and I think the last one I found unbidden was
Wapedia, which admittedly isn't exactly the same content as WP.)
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gwern