[Foundation-l] Does google favour WIkipedia?

Fred Bauder fredbaud at fairpoint.net
Tue Mar 20 17:20:59 UTC 2012


> The answer, evidently, is "not as much as Bing" -
> http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2161910/Bing-Not-Google-Favors-Wikipedia-More-Often-in-Search-Results-Study
>
> Thought people might find it interesting :)

No question that we are a center of attention for Google. I've noticed
that when I create a new article, it often comes up as the first hit on
Google for the subject within 5 minutes. There is no way such positioning
is based on external links to the article.

Fred






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