[Foundation-l] Is Google allowing users to block Wikipedia?

[Theo10011]

On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 2:30 AM, Kul Takanao Wadhwa
<kwadhwa at wikimedia.org>wrote:

> On 3/19/11 1:56 PM, Erik Moeller wrote:
> > 2011/3/19 Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org>:
> >> Looks like it's one of their small percentage experiments. Haven't
> >> been able to reproduce it myself. Not clear whether it's just
> >> wikipedia.org or other/all sites.
> > Bence pointed to this explanation:
> >
> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/hide-sites-to-find-more-of-what-you.html
> >
> Thx. I know about the general blocking option but wanted to know if
> anyone has seen other sites, besides Wikipedia, specifically called out
> too.
>
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I first thought it might have had something to do with google's new
search algorithm.

I thought a similar feature had been around for a while, to block results
from a particular site. There was a star option earlier to prioritize
results from a particular site, it seems to be a natural progression.

It seems to be a personalized search feature, not directly related to
Wikipedia visibility in search results.

Theo