[WikiEN-l] Microsoft phrase re Google: "The Wikipedia problem"

[Matthew Brown]

On 5/24/07, William Pietri <william at scissor.com> wrote:
> Honestly, out of the things that come up in the first page of results,
> I'd generally rather they ended up on the Wikipedia article if they were
> going to read something uncritically. (Of similar quality were
> government sites, although they were often less readable.) We're not
> perfect, of course. But neither are we trying to separate people from
> their money.

I suspect that the fact that Wikipedia is the best result on the first
search result page scares these people even more, and for good reason.

-Matt