[WikiEN-l] Gosh darn it, those spammers^Wmarketers will show us what for

[David Gerard]

On 24/01/07, Steve Summit <scs at eskimo.com> wrote:

> But with that said, I have to agree with Bryan: Wikipedia is not
> great because it has high pagerank.  It is great because it has
> great content.  Personally, I think Wikipedia's pagerank is too
> high: Wikipedia results tend to swamp the first page of many of
> the Google searches I do, to the detriment of the other sites
> I might also want to find.  If the "boycott" as any effect, it
> won't bother me, or hurt Wikipedia, at all.


Note that just a couple of years ago, we had the opposite problem:
googling on stuff that should have brought up the Wikipedia page
instead brought up three pages of Wikipedia mirror sites!


- d.