[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia struggles, Mozilla set for life?

[Gregory Maxwell]

On 10/24/07, cohesion <cohesion at sleepyhead.org> wrote:
> I think most people use google to search anyway.

This is amazingly unlikely.

In the log sample I have access:

Out of 106,813 accesses to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ loads of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search? account for 9674 of them.

Page loads with a http://(www.)?google.*/ referer account for 12726
page loads. (yes, the claims by spammers that 75% of Wikipedia page
views are from google are BS :) )

Of the 12726 google referers, 442 include the word "wikipedia" in the
google URL.

It's possible that the Wikipedia search numbers are pumped by broken
bots or the like, but the gap is so big.

As such we should accept the theory that the overwhelming majority
people searching Wikipedia use our own search.