Comments on: Wikipedia Defeats Google (Sometimes)

By: Rawsocket

Rawsocket — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 21:06:57 +0000

Wikipedia - Defeating Google?

This post by Nivi got me thinking. Wikipedia is defeating Google?

If I want to learn about San Francisco, I could type “San Francisco” into Google and see what Google’s computers spew out. I can trudge through the results and hopefully find wha...

By: Jawahar Mundlapati

Jawahar Mundlapati — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 07:01:27 +0000

Google lets you develop your own applications with web API

http://www.google.com/apis/

By: Christa Favot

Christa Favot — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 20:34:21 +0000

Wikipedia makes my day. Everyday. Yesterday it generated a snappy little defition for “transformation” of the molecular biology variety. I thought it was remarkable that the bio definition was listed first, followed by the math then music definitions. “Synonym for metamorphosis” followed. Interestingly, a science-oriented definition of “plate” (plate electrode) was also prioritized instead of the kind I serve spaghetti on. Regardless of why this is, it may contribute to broadening interests among users (including a curiosity about science) rather than handing over the garden-variety-dictionary goods first. What a great amalgamation of people’s interests and expertise.

By: Anon

Anon — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 13:24:46 +0000

Having a resource which is as useful as Wikipedia it’s not an attack on Google, but a huge benefit to them. If they can get their algorithms right and consistently display Wikipedia articles at the top of the results pages, which increasingly is the case, anyone visiting Google has very easy access to the information they want, which is the aim of Google. Google make extensive use of Wikipedia via their “define” function, and in the “definitions” link at the top of most results (via answers.com). If there was any possibility of this being an attack on Google, they would hardly be offering to become one of a growing number of Wikimedia hosting partners.

By: David Gerard

David Gerard — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 10:20:02 +0000

The actual attack on Google is Jimmy Wales’ new company site, http://www.wikia.com/ – it’s a more Wikilike manifestation of Open Directory.

By: Ben Yates

Ben Yates — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 23:59:48 +0000

It's kind of refreshing to see an analysis of Wikipedia that isn't either "hey, look at how wikipedia responds to the latest disaster" or "wikipdeia sucks!"

I've got a response of sorts -- I'd trackback, but I don't think Blogger supports it.

By: Dimitar Vesselinov

Dimitar Vesselinov — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 17:31:37 +0000

Useful links on the topic http://divedi.blogspot.com/2005/07/wikipedia-vs-google.html

By: TechCrunch

TechCrunch — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 11:16:02 +0000

Profile - Wikipedia

Service: Wikipedia

Created: January 15, 2001
Summary:
Wikipedia has been around for over 5 years, is the largest wiki (by far) and serves over 400 million page views per month (to compare, USA Today has about 300 million).
Wikipedia is a free, o...