[Foundation-l] Left on the Table, vs. Google's serving portion

[Michael Snow]

On 11/7/2010 4:09 PM, geni wrote:
> As for  tweak algorithmic factors firstly it's already happened at
> least once (there was a noticeable drop in wikipedia's Google SERPS
> positions a few years back). Secondly since both bing and yahoo rank
> wikipedia highly (in fact while I haven't checked recently for a long
> time google ranked wikipedia lower than those two) it seems unlikely
> that any reasonable algorithmic change would kill off wikipedia's
> traffic.
I don't think there's any point in checking Bing and Yahoo separately 
anymore. I'm not sure what effect that might have on Wikipedia traffic 
in and of itself, but it means there are fewer algorithms to tweak, for 
good or ill.

--Michael Snow