[WikiEN-l] Google hit rankings

[Stan Shebs]

Nathan Wong wrote:

> Why does Wikipedia seem to be so low recently? It seems to be barely 
> featured for lots of common searches, whereas various snapshots and 
> Wikipedia mirrors are indexed frequently. For example:
> http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=prime+minister+of+the++united+kingdom&fsrc=1&oi=moresources 
>
> http://www.google.com.au/search?q=Australia+capital&fsrc=1&oi=moresources 
> (those are question answers, but thats what many people may look for).
>
> With Wikipedia being such a popular site, I'd have thought that it 
> might be higher.

I imagine the Google spider doesn't wait around five minutes
hoping for the page to come up. Many times it just has to cache
the empty page from wikipedia.org, can't be good for our
page rank vs quick-responding mirrors.

Stan