On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 03:09:54PM -0800, Daniel Mayer wrote:
Is it my imagination or has Wikipedia articles lost almost all Google page rank ratings? Check out and test pages listed on: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_10_Google_hits
Every one I tested was no longer in the top 10. For example, searching for <"Cartesian product"> doesn't seem to find our Wikipedia article (which was the #1 hit) and more shocking is that < "Cartesian product" Wikipedia> doesn't bring up the current .org article either! See
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_...
It is as if everything in www.wikipedia.org/wiki/ is being totally ignored by Googlebot for some reason.
As far as I understand how google works, www.wikipedia.com had high page rank and lot of links to it. Now almost all of these links go to www.wikipedia.org, so: * www.wikipedia.org has links but low page rank * www.wikipedia.com has high page rank but few links
So neither will get good scores at google.
It will improve when google will refresh their cache.