On 20.06.2016 19:57, Stas Malyshev wrote:
Hi!
Lest we forget.... https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=tina+turner
Look at the right side Google Knowledge Graph panel.... Wikipedia is displayed as sources of information. Wikipedia gets attribution and a bit of free advertising.
Compared to bold prominent link to Wikipedia as the first result of the same search, I wonder how much traffic a little link tucked into the sidebar on the right actually gets.
I think at least one group of people will read the small links very carefully: spammers who want to get visibility on Google. I am not sure if it would be so good for us at the current stage (with our current anti-spam infrastructure) to widely advertise Wikidata as an entry point to Google (which I still believe it is not, but things might change, and the question of how we want this to be displayed might come up eventually). The SEO people already try to convince others that Google is using Wikidata, but I think they also are aware of the fact that this is all but clear so far. At the time when Google really starts using our data in significant ways, and this becomes publicly documented, we need to be prepared for a lot more spam than we are seeing now.
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