[WikiEN-l] Comscore claims Wikipedia had more visitors during September than Amazon, Myspace or Youtube

[charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com]

"Gregory Maxwell" wrote

> On 10/28/06, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Less. Our vistors likely don't stay as long.
> 
> Your statement is not refuted by the AOL search data: Lots of people
> clicked through to Wikipedia on a broad spectrum of search keywords,
> but many continued searching afterwards.

Makes sense.

> A while back I did a list of the most popular search keywords which
> lack articles and we found a couple of gaping holes in our coverage.

It is largely in the 'long tail' where we really score, surely. I think about this when adding obscure bibliography. Book titles with invented names, for example. 

Charles

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