I found this on Michael Gray's blog. Google thinks that wikipedia deserves to be above delicious for the search term "delicious". WTF Check it out. http://www.google.com/search?q=delicious
I believe Google gives far to much weight to wikipedia in its search engines. Let say you search for ' Akita ' which is a dog breed. Wikipedia is number one and it only has one page on the dog breed, whilst there are about 50 websites dedicated purely to that dog breed below it. This is the same with virtually every dog breed and probably every other word in the encyclopedia. Its totally stupid in my opinion. Why is wikipedia so important??
Weird maybe there is some differences in search researches depending on which countries you are from. Mine is still the same google first, wiki second.
The same thing happened for like Cadillac or something a while back. And I do agree that too many WIKI sites make it to the top. I have a feeling that may change though if the Wiki Search Engine takes off. LOL For many keywords WIKI does seem to come up first or second, and in many cases I find it rather strange. While Wiki can be a great source of information its far from primary information and in the rare cases where it beats out a site for a site name then that is just wrong. *shrug* But I think the only way to really get it to stop is to stop linking to WIKI about everything else, as far as I know, we are the ones that feed wiki it's power in the eyes of the Google Algo. Here is a related link: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=302605
I would say it will change when Google Wiki takes off, Wiki might just disappear who knows, Google has every right to put their own Wiki first and Wiki has every right to put theirs first in the search engines. Though the end results would be a Win (Google) Lose(Wiki) relation.
Try searching for the movie "i am legend". Google has the first two spots for itself then wikipedia and finally the official site. Go Google!
I see internet movie database first. I don't have problem with wikipedia. It gives quality peer edited information. What's wrong with that?
I don't have a problem with wikipedia either. The thing is though, Google is way to hung up on wikipedia giving it 1st position for things that it should not. Wikipedia shouldn't outrank official sites for their own name.
I'm in canada and I see del.icio.us - #1 / wiki #2 But I definitely agree wiki has to much weight in GSERP, but that's not going to stop until "WE" stop linking to them so much, or G makes their own pedia!
I'm seeing del.icio.us - #1 / wiki #2 in South Africa but if you look at the two results, del.icio.us has a dynamic hotlist that constists of links to other sites and very little content; wiki has lots of content about del.icio.us, so I think wiki is a much more relevant search result in terms of relevant information.
Wikipedia does seem to dominate the search engines, and ranks much higher with a single page about a certain topic, over well developed websites with hundreds of pages for the same topic. As a regular user, it does get pretty annoying knowing that 9/10 searches I do will show me a wikipedia listing. If I wanted info from wikipedia, I would go directly to it. Is it so hard for Google to provide us with an option where we get asked if we want to results from the following sites .... Wikipedia Ebay Amazon I think the SERPs would be much better without these three hogging all the results. ( Just my thoughts though - so feel free to disagree ) Alex