Erik Zachte schrieb:
I know this is not new, but I'm rather pissed off to see Google returns several commercial sites featuring all Wikipedia articles on a request explicitly specifying "Wikipedia" as search term, and on top of the real thing.
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I know GDFL is very permissive, but is there nothing we can do about this?
Last year, I played a lot with google's pagerank and the way new pages find their way into the index.
One of the monst important factors in the PageRank formula is freshness. If I copy a page from the source web site which is already in the google index, I have a certain chance to get ahead of if - for some time.
After a while, the ratio of age will balance and other factors (the global pagerank of a site, and it's update frequency) will catch up.
So the answer is time. Most pages won't stay ahead of wikipedia.org for long time - If the other comply to the license, they have to link to us, which is boosting wikipedia.org.
So in the long term (and that's what wikipedia is certainly good at: deep breath) we gain from all the parasits (which appears to me as a POV term)
By the way: Noone is searching for "wikipedia rembrand" if he doesn't know wikipedia yet. I use to use google as a full text search engine for wikipedia as long as we can't provide this yet by ourself.
Our aim is to get to position 1 for the search term "rembrand" and all the other lemmata which is a project for ages. Under these condiditions we can surely afford to let other sites to provide the wikipedia content in a GFDL compliant way.
Mathias