On Jan 16, 2008 10:46 PM, Rich Holton richholton@gmail.com wrote:
What is it that you want to stop? Are you suggesting that we remove all
company articles? Or just their logos?
Even without company logos, the wikipedia article may still rank high on search engine results.
It is. See companies' articles on the projects which banned fair use - German or Japanese Wikipedia. No logo I assume may not harm the page ranking of those articles.
For example: For IBM, googling only for Japanese pages: Japanese Wikipedia article is ranked as 2nd or 3rd (depends on how the result is interpretated), seconding to the company official page. Googling only for German pages generates a similar result.
Is that significantly better?
It is however determinded by readership - hence by the community in each language. And generally, it is even slightly more informative to include their logos than omitting.
And, why should we change our practices because of the practices of search engines?
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