Google's loving of wikipedia is going too far...

I read your blog article..very very good idea!!
I'm giving you green rep

 

Thanks Arcanus

 

your welcome,and thanks for the return rep

 

Hey, relixx,

Just an addition to your post. I had a random keyword search - "capoeira information" and I got right the same kind of results - the Wiki's capoeira definitions right above all the other results. However, I don't think that comes only from Google's about Wiki - probably they simply think that such way of showing info is fast and useful to all those readers who doesn't have much time to spend on reading on...

 

Wikipedia is on the top of SERPs for every keyword ...

But WIKIPEDIA has an extraordinary QUALITY content and a lot of backlinks

 

1 million and costs are increaseing. Cost of servers and bandwidth is not fallling fast enough to offset increaseing load.

 

Extraordinary enough to outrank websites DEVOTED to the subject?

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WikiPedia's dominance will remain as long as people keep linking to them for a reference. The reason they're such good linkbait is free+known, not necessarily GOOD INFO! LOL!! Hopefully the latest rounds of "WikiP is wrong" bad press will knock down some of the .edu inbounds they have
Ever check their backlinks!! Sheeesh! Wish I had some of that linkjuice.

 

We just need wikipedia to start up their own version of adsense (which was rumored). I'm sure wikipedia would mysteriously start losing ground in Google soon after.

 

Wikipedia and Google share the same foundation on which is based their success: candid users contributing for free to make them rich

 

this has a message: stop building websites build wikipedia.
Google SERPs are relevant... yeah, right.

 

Like we couldn't find wikipedia otherwise.

 

As long as you don’t correct your own mistakes and start giving Wikipedia a taste of its own medicine, nothing is going to change!

 

I don't think its possible to implement that widely and bring about a *change*.

Think logically dude, if a couple hundred webmasters start referring to wikipedia as a nofollow link, it wont give put a dent in Wiki's popularity since they have so many links and that too trusted ones AND TO TOP IT ALL, GOOGLE loves them, as mentioned in the first post and throughout this topic.

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Wikipedia has it all. That's why google loves it...

 

wikipedia has a very big trust rank...

 

It has to start somewhere, don't forget it is due to us webmasters it is at this position and if you keep adding links without nofollow tag its only going to gain popularity.

 

hmm,someone needs to start a rival "pedia" type of website.
Layout and graphics different,a new generation of online info resource..

vista la revolution.....

 

look at the financial statement yourself, notice that "travel" expenses are almost as large as hosting? im sure there would be dozens of datacenters who can offer quality bandwidth in exchange for a little text link at bottom of the page "hosted by xyz" which is what php.net does

anyways considering alot of servers were donated by yahoo..

also im sure if wikimedia go to google and say "hey can you donate some servers since your driving so much traffic to us and we provide you with "relevant" results" google will give them a few dozen boxes (if they havent already)

wikipedia is a great resource but its run by not so nice people, and it got to be so big thanks to people editing it, lately wikipedia seem to forget how they got there in first page

 

Yes, and after 4-5 years it will be totaly f****d up again