Comments on: Google Sends 1.67 Billion Users to Wikipedia Per Month

By: CarstenCumbrowski

CarstenCumbrowski — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 18:34:09 +0000

Consider that the pages included make up only about 20% of the pages of Wikipedia. Granted, article pages tend to rank higher than user or project pages and article talk pages, which make up another 20% are excluded by Google automatically, Google excluded them much earlier, even prior "no-follow" was enabled again at Wikipedia. User pages and project pages also link a lot to the main article space and the main space should never link back to anywhere in wikipedia outside the article space, unless that page is a reference for the article itself. It's like one way linking. All in all is it probably not much more additional traffic in % figures, but even a single digit or less is a lot when applied to figures like the one we are talking about here.

By: Dave L

Dave L — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 07:32:23 +0000

Of course, Google sends even more people to the internet at large, and we know how reliable all the pages on the the internet are.

For researchers, comparing Wikipedia results to other internet pages via Google is definitely an improvement over “internet only” without Wikipedia.

By: Michael Martinez

Michael Martinez — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:24:22 +0000

It’s a sad statement about Google’s integrity that they should willfully send people to Wikipedia simply because “most people don’t know any better” about how unreliable and inaccurate a resource Wikipedia is.