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

[geni]

2009/6/7 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
> 2009/6/7 geni <geniice at gmail.com>:
>
>> Perhaps more directly the recent actions of Google and Microsoft bing
>> suggest that part of being a modern search engine is effectively
>> presenting wikipedia content to people.
>
>
> It was certainly surprising to see Microsoft getting into directly
> providing a Wikipedia mirror.
>
>
> - d.

Not really new. View say central London on multimap then select the
wikipedia tick box.

With Encarta abandoned microsoft has no real interest in developing an
alternative to wikipedia any more so why not use it?

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geni