[Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia featured in German weekly magazine

Sean at AWH sean at epoptic.com
Thu Mar 4 02:18:57 UTC 2004


>One possible hook is to pick apart a Google result or two, show 
>how often 90-95% of the results are bogus sites just trying to 
>sell you something. Small towns in the US are an example - just 
>try to find the town's home page or date of founding amongst all >the "fine motels in Smallville, Nebraska", and "real estate >opportunities in Smallville, Nebraska". 

It's not just Americ-- oops, United-Statesian towns that have that syndrome.  I just went thru that particular torture trying to look up Petrozavodsk.




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