[WikiEN-l] SEO conference on Wikipedia

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Wed Apr 18 16:36:24 UTC 2007


On 18/04/07, Info Control <infodmz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Why would you question it? It's part of the success of Wikipedia, whether
> people would *like* to concede or admit it. The symbiotic relationship
> between WP, the search engines, and the interlinking of websites. Without
> the engine of millions of links into Wikipedia, it wouldn't be as highly
> ranked in all the search engines... for, well, everything.


The "success" of Wikipedia has been crippling, and going top 10 has
greatly hampered the actual writing of an encyclopedia as it gets
pulled in all directions by publicity-generated stupidity.


> Any search at all that you do, if an article exists will return
> en.wikipedia.org in the top 1-5 results. On all search engines. Is this a
> bad thing?


Yes. See above.


- d.



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