[Foundation-l] Wikipedia growth since February 2004 greatly slowed - uh, no
Daniel Mayer
maveric149 at yahoo.com
Fri Jul 16 16:13:32 UTC 2004
--- "Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales" <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
> Daniel Mayer wrote:
> > I won't be surprised if Google comes to us in a years time trying to
> > push us into having Google ads.
>
> You seem to be hinting with the word "push" that they would compromise
> their editorial integrity in exchange for the opportunity to show ads.
> I think that is extraordinarily unlikely. They are good people.
No, that is not what I meant at all. I was hinting that they would like to have
us as a partner so they could generate more ad revenue. There is nothing wrong
with that, BTW. It would just be a measure of how much traffic we have. Many
advertisers will see us as a very tempting target in a years time.
That's all.
-- Daniel
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