G'day folks, E-consultancy claims that Wikipedia dominates the online encyclopedia market.

http://econsultancy.com/blog/3185-wikipedia-has-97-of-the-encyclopedia-marke...

*Online collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia has a massive 97% share of internet visits among the top five reference websites, highlighting the amount of work that rivals like Britannica.com have to catch up.*

Britannica.com announced some new Wikipedia-style community featureshttp://econsultancy.com/blog/3176-encyclopedia-britannica-takes-a-page-from-wikipedia last week as it attempts to make up some of the ground lost to Wikipedia. According to stats from Hitwisehttp://weblogs.hitwise.com/us-heather-hopkins/2009/01/britannica_20_wikipedia_gets_9.html, it currently has just 0.57% of US internet visits to the encyclopedia category.

Other reference sites like MSN Encarta and Encyclopedia.com also trail way behind Wikipedia, but Britannica.com comes bottom in this category: (More in story)

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Keith Old