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Avatar Went Hot: August 1, 2007 - 6:29 pm
Posted By: chriswinfield 339 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.thegooglecache.com)
Category: Google
Does Wikipedia really deserve its rankings in Google? A brief look at how Wikipedia articles out-rank competitors with more links and more content.
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from Sebastian 339 days ago #
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I guess the wiki ranking algo is a bit more complex:

http://sphinn.com/story/245

;)

from JohnWeb 338 days ago #
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Makes me sick sometimes, I just wonder who's gaining from this and why.

from cakedollar 338 days ago #
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It also makes me sick as often the wikipedia article isn't accurate :(

from GerBot 338 days ago #
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The jam doughnut I just ate is making me sick.

on topic now: I think the wiki has taken the 'page' out of pagerank for good now. Let's just start calling it 'siterank' and give it a blue bar.

from WizardMan 333 days ago #
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Well, for one Wikipedia is still the number 1 resource worldwide for information. It's a fact as most universities and educational facilities have banned the use of Wikipedia for references on projects as lecturers and the like and finding that there's too much "duplicate content" and not enough research that's being done. Meaning too many people are using Wikipedia (which means it's still a trusted source for most)

So in all fairness, if you're the number 1 resource in the world for information, surely you deserve a number 1 ranking for most topics?


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