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Google Traffic To Wikipedia up 166% Year over Year
weblogs.hitwise.com — Last week Wikipedia was the #3 website in Google's downstream, after Google Image Search and MySpace.
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- jcs_goog, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3This means that Wikipedia's PageRank is on the way up due to more people linking to them.
- 6cyV7dpXUrZomP3, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Wikipedia -- ***** YEAH!
- fatadamblog, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Google needs to buy Wikipedia!
- dudemanbro, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I plus digged you but then I changed my mind. I think that that would be a really bad idea.
- xgenericx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I believe the only reason wikipedia gets so much hits from linkage from google is that people like me simply go to their google/yahoo toolbar and type something like:
wiki kryptonite
to reach wikipedia's entry on kryptonite instead of clicking some bookmark/typing the address in, and then typing the search entry, and then clicking the 100% relevance entry, google's 1st search result is almost bound to be the 100% relevance entry in wikipedia afterall - pixelmixer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4i just use the firefox 2 built in search to search wikipedia... it works faster for most things unless you spell it wrong.
wikipedia search "Kryptonite": directly opens http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptonite: 0 click 1 search
google search "Kryptonite": second link down opens http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptonite: 1 click 1 search
google search "wiki Kryptonite": first link down opens http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptonite: 1 click 1 search - Firehed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@xgenericx - That's how I always do it. Or, at least whenever I'm not at my main computer (which has "wiki %s" as a keyword search to actually do the Wikipedia search instead of just an I'm feeling lucky for "wiki %s"). IIRC, both "wiki" and "wikipedia" are in the top ten most-Googled queries, and I doubt it's because people forget how to go to wikipedia.org. Of course, it's also at least in part because Google is my automatic home page out of sheer habit - firing up a browser always results in my typing "CMD+L google.com [return]"
- daza, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I don't know about you guys, but I don't even bother searching. I just type "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARTICLE_TITLE". Yeah, it's a bit geeky, but I find it easier. Only thing is that it evokes some really confused and "wtf" expressions from people watching what you're doing.. "Are you half machine?"
- NanoStuff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8For a moment I thought this may shed a ray of hope on humanity.
I was fooling myself,
http://tools.wikimedia.de/~leon/stats/wikicharts/index.php?ns=articles&limit=100&month=08%2F2006&wiki=enwiki - AngryBacon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10What does the fact that MySpace is linked more than Wikipedia say about our intelligence?
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After reading NanoStuff's post, I realize that it says we're mostly idiots, and would still say so if Wikipedia was linked more.- timpkmn89, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I've seen tons of people at school go to www.google.com to type "myspace" in the search bar to go there.
- donjo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3@timpkmn89: What would you say is the approximate length of the bus you ride to school?
- Swanston, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Sad to see that MySpace was up there...
- Kavok, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1@donjo
Why are you giving him an attitude? Plenty of people at my college do this. A lot of people just don't know the difference and/or are lazy.- pixelmixer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I believe donjo was commenting on the average intelligence of his school.. not so much the intelligence of timpkmn89 himself.
Although it did seem that way, i dont think thats what he meant.
- pixelmixer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I believe donjo was commenting on the average intelligence of his school.. not so much the intelligence of timpkmn89 himself.
- zapco03, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I think it is time for Google to give Wikipedia a hand with their search capabilities. Specifically the Google "Did you mean:" feature.
- BiDi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Using Google's "I'm feeling lucky" search is not so retarded as it may seem... it is indeed true that you, mister, are a *****, if you write www.yahoo.com as a Google search term, so you can do your "search" from laughably inferior site, but if you are looking for "astalavista.box.sk" portal and don't know the url, you can just write in Firefox address bar: [astalavista] and you get the one of the most usefull sites in the universe via Google's I'm feeling lucky search that finds the url for you in the background. For most sites it will find their wiki entry because it is the most relevant, for parts of url it will in 99% of the time find the site you are looking for.
- drakethegreat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Only because people haven't discovered they can add wikipedia to their firefox search drop down. That or they don't use firefox.
- Ninja337, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1type -wikipedia and get that wikispam out of our search engines.
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