[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia's Effect on American Knowledge

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Mon Jul 2 01:16:05 UTC 2007


Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:

>On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 16:01:18 -0700 (PDT), Cheney Shill wrote:
>  
>
>>Despite the Web, Americans Remain Woefully
>>Ill-Informed
>>    
>>
>It's the English language Wikipedia.  The fact that one side of the
>pond spends its time reading Pokemon and porn doesn't mean we who
>drive on the correct side don't use it to look up something
>meaningful...
>
When I plug in "porn" in Google trends I find that the top six cities in 
the world for such searches are all in the United Kingdom, but fact do 
not bear out the notion that your side of the pond reads as much about 
Pokémon.

Ec




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