[Foundation-l] Does google favour WIkipedia?

[MZMcBride]

Fred Bauder wrote:
>> Perhaps they honestly believe that their keyword-primed advertorial
>> page is actually more useful than a Wikipedia page and are astounded
>> that Google might have the temerity to disagree. ;-)
> 
> We can't create a new page based on a press release or an advertisement.
> Usually a new page results from news, journal articles, or news about
> journal articles. There will be links to the sources. This is not a
> difficult pattern to program into an algorithm.

We can't? It happens every single day on Wikimedia wikis and the articles
generally sit around for weeks, if not months or years. I'm not sure what
you're talking about.

MZMcBride