[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia is 30 times more popular than sex (actually: 34 times)
ScottL
scott at mu.org
Thu Jul 27 04:55:49 UTC 2006
Steve Bennett wrote:
> On 7/26/06, Stephen Bain <stephen.bain at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I think that table is actually about the top search terms that
>> Wikipedia receives traffic from. So "Wikipedia" is used in just over
>> 3% of searches which end up in a hit to Wikipedia, and "sex" is used
>> in 0.1% of searches which end up in a hit to Wikipedia.
>
> It's bizarre. I did a search for "sex" (with trepidation - I'm at
> work) and didn't see any links to Wikipedia. It's also strange that so
> many companies go to such a lot of work to get in the top few results
> for "sex", while we apparently get in quite easily, with no effort?
>
> Steve
As I understand it this includes any search that has the word sex in
it. Including such things as "same-sex marriage", "sexual development",
"how to tell the sex of your hamster" whatever.
Dalf
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