Andrew Lih wrote:
The lead blog story on Alexa's front page today is about Wikipedia surpassing NY Times in terms of traffic rank. Traffic has spiked upwards in the last month, and sits at #66 for today.
BTW, the blogger discovered this through my del.icio.us and flickr tags, so keep tagging things out there as "wikipedia"
See: http://www.alexa.com http://tinyurl.com/6gsa3 (Wikipedia vs. NY Times)
-Andrew (User:Fuzheado)
And let's not forget Ask Jeeves, which has also been recently passed by Wikipedia. Considering that Ask Jeeves recently changed hands for almost $2BN, one might consider what "value" might be attached to Wikipedia's contributions to free knowledge. Now, that's philanthropy!
-- Neil