[Foundation-l] Does google favour WIkipedia?

[David Gerard]

On 20 March 2012 18:39, Tom Morris <tom at tommorris.org> wrote:
> On 20 March 2012 18:24, Andrew Gray <andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk> wrote:

>> (The SEO people are correct that Wikipedia has a high Google ranking,
>> and correct that this is something of an odd skew on Google's part.
>> What always amuses me is the recurrent belief that Wikipedia
>> deliberately tries to do this, that we're bribing Google or setting up
>> carefully-constructed semantic traps in our articles or something -
>> the fact that it's not a cunning ploy on our part is completely
>> inconceivable to someone who approaches everything from this
>> perspective.)

> Perhaps they honestly believe that their keyword-primed advertorial
> page is actually more useful than a Wikipedia page and are astounded
> that Google might have the temerity to disagree. ;-)


You just don't understand how vitally important to the Web it really
is that the first party (us) ignore the second party (the readers) so
that a third party (SEO spammers^Wspecialists) can get in good with a
fourth party (Google).

[citation needed]


- d.