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Wikipedia: The Barry Bonds of Search Results
Searching News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Published: Nov 02, 2007 - 09:40 am
Story Found By: jstn714 1562 Days ago
Category: Searching
From the page: "Like Barry Bonds, Wikipedia comes across as one of the best and one of the cleanest players in the game. Yet when it comes to those in the inner circles — of baseball and in the search industry — both Bonds and Wikipedia represent all that is wrong with the game."
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from planetc1 1562 Days ago #
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The main keyword entry for my industry on wikipedia appears innocent, but it’s full of inaccurate information and references only one particular group in the industry. The entire page is a marketing piece. It’s pretty sad.

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from TheMadHat 1562 Days ago #
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There needs to be an asterick next to all Wikipedia listings...

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from SEOgre 1562 Days ago #
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Wikipedia is indeed a mess.  The Ron Paul page alone could take eons to verify content.  I think Google really wants Wikipedia to be seen a a "good" content provider but inevitably they are just adding fueld to the "whoever has the most links in the end wins" fire.

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from iamlost 1562 Days ago #
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’Preferential treatment can not be tolerated in search results’Search results are by definition the creation of a multitude of discriminating filters, programmed biases, and preferential treatment. As is any list. If you have no tolerance for the search results of a particular provider don’t use it. On a more practical side if more domains linked to original source material the generalist sites, such as Wikipedia, would lose much of their authority. The SEs are behaving no differently than most domains. Indeed, they are actually following our links, accepting our aggregate valuation of Wikipedia et al.Barry Bonds’ stats-asterick is a cop-out by all concerned. Either test him (and others), convict him (and others) of some stats obliterating offence, or get off his case and put the asterick up the League, law enforcement, and sports media.

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