[WikiEN-l] Google thinks Wikipedia is a news source

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/6/7 Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net>:
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>> Unfortunate but unsurprising. Not that long ago Google was telling
>> traditional media that they should construct their articles in a more
>> wikipedia like manner (ie continuously update a single article per
>> event rather than creating a string of new articles).
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>> geni
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> The New York Times does that with breaking news. It is a better practice
> even if it is only a few reporters and editors that are involved.

The BBC News website does too. I'm not a great fan of that approach,
it makes it hard to find out what the new information is (they don't
have "(diff)" links like Wikipedia, so you have to play a game of
spot-the-difference manually).