On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Charlotte Webb <charlottethewebb(a)gmail.com
wrote:
> On 11/26/08, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com
wrote:
> > In theory it should as long as you assume that google treats wikis
> > like other websites. Due to their unusually high levels of inline
> > linking in wikis this is questionable.
>
> In proportion to the number of distinct pages available on *large*
> wikis the amount of internal linking is unusually low. But yeah,
> whatever way this and other factors are measured one would be a fool
> to assume Wikipedia isn't a special case in determining them.
>
Google way overvalues internal linking anyway. Why else would Wikipedia and
Investopedia, with their useless three sentence answers, rank so high for
searches like
http://www.google.com/search?q=debtor+in+possession+financing