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

[Daniel R. Tobias]

On 24 May 2007 at 22:41:34 -0700, 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 tried searching on "Viagra", one of the most heavily-spammed 
keywords on the Internet, and found that the second site in the 
Google search results (not counting the paid results in a box above) 
is the Wikipedia article on Viagra (which redirects to its generic 
name, Sildenafil).  (The first search result is the official 
manufacturer's site on the drug.)  That's pretty good of Wikipedia to 
get ahead of all the spammers with their SEO voodoo, and pretty good 
of Google to manage to get the relevant and informative sites at the 
top.


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