[Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million

[geni]

On 17 February 2010 17:18, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 17 February 2010 14:44, Domas Mituzas <midom.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> The question is, how do we thank the company that has everything?
>
>> We can thank them by providing better content to everyone. That is both what they and us want.
>
>
> Indeed. Note, by the way, I believe we've previously received money
> from Microsoft Bing. (Who heavily link and I think mirror Wikipedia
> content in their results.)
>
>
> - d.

No in the results. Bing Reference is a wikipedia mirror though.
Microsoft also link to wikipedia articles on multimap. Their
representative use that to defend themselves against the that modern
navigation technology was making people pay less attention to their
surroundings.



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geni