96.6% of Wikipedia Pages Rank in Google’s Top 10
While everyone has noticed Wikipedia dominating Google’s search results, this is a little outrageous. After grabbing 600 random pages from Wikipedia (using their special:random link), I conducted searches in Google for each of the titles of the Wikipedia entries. Out of the 600, 580 were in the top 10.
| Wikipedia Entry | Top 10? |
| Czechoslovakia at the 1960 Summer Olympics | yes |
| Jefferson Park | yes |
| Unity Day | yes |
| St. John Vianney High School (New Jersey) | yes |
| Veil of Darkness | no |
| Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp. v. Public Service Commission | no |
| Al-Fakik (crater) | yes |
| Group key | no |
| Driver Hearing | yes |
| Black Lips | yes |
| William Shakespear | yes |
| Comparative government | yes |
| Robert J. White | yes |
| Lila Bell Wallace | yes |
| William Dodd (Congressional candidate) | yes |
| Star (glyph) | yes |
| Kathleen Freeman | yes |
| Jim Bohannon | yes |
| Tacca leontopetaloides | no |
| SS Ile de France | yes |
| American Culinary Federation | no |
| Kashara | yes |
| Universe (documentary) | yes |
| Hauge, Østfold | yes |
| Hugh Welch Diamond | yes |
| Richard Crasta | yes |
| Montevista, Compostela Valley | yes |
| Michio | yes |
| Tata Administrative Service | yes |
| Osvald Teshik | yes |
| William E. Cleator, Sr. | yes |
| WCTI-LP | no |
| Yengema | yes |
| Die Blutgräfin | yes |
| Cabin Boy | yes |
| Albatros L 79 | yes |
| 1993 CFL season | yes |
| Louis Brandeis | yes |
| Komorovice | yes |
| Hammersmith Palais 19:5:85 | yes |
| Cambridge, Minnesota | yes |
| Centi | yes |
| Randolph Harding | yes |
| Iraqi TV | yes |
| Samuel Slovák | yes |
| Saskatchewan Highway 735 | yes |
| Sampson Nanton | yes |
| Critical Path (video game) | yes |
| Robert Ironside | yes |
| Allah Muhammed Saleem | yes |
| Eric Marshall | no |
| Calvin Gotlieb | yes |
| Citizen Change | yes |
| Northlake | yes |
| Unleashed (Bow Wow album) | yes |
| Glamsbjerg | yes |
| Delphi effect | yes |
| Dr. Alban | yes |
| Magenta box | yes |
| Great Bear Lake | yes |
| Scilly Isles, Surrey | yes |
| One Nationwide Plaza | yes |
| Illiopolis Township, Sangamon County, Illinois | yes |
| Ichneumon wasp | yes |
| Melissa McIntyre | yes |
| McCullough Mountains | yes |
| Constant Weight | yes |
| Shreve, Lamb and Harmon | yes |
| YAF | no |
| Standing Pine, Mississippi | yes |
| Common fund | yes |
| That Crook’d ‘Sipp | yes |
| Sivas Airport | yes |
| Line by Line | no |
| Choana | yes |
| White Pass (Washington) | yes |
| Tony Perkis | yes |
| Owen Owen | yes |
| Lakehurst Cinema | yes |
| Dance Dance Revolution 2ndMIX | yes |
| United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals | yes |
| Ecocentrism | yes |
| Go?dap | yes |
| Batha Est | yes |
| List of asteroids/143601–143700 | yes |
| Fernando Lanhas | yes |
| Los Dementes Algarete | yes |
| Freestyle skiing at the 1994 Winter Olympics | yes |
| Lancair Propjet | yes |
| John Aniston | yes |
| The Entity (album) | yes |
| William R. Coe | yes |
| Albugo candida | yes |
| Delivered Duty Paid | yes |
| Methadone | yes |
| Avery Weigh-Tronix | yes |
| Salem Township, Meigs County, Ohio | yes |
| Molecules (journal) | yes |
| Maelle Ricker | yes |
| U.S. Route 216 | yes |
| Tolleson Union High School | no |
| No More the Fool (1986 album) | yes |
| Marly (TransMilenio) | yes |
| N-methyl-3-methoxy-4,5-methylendioxyamphetamine | yes |
| Spot croaker | yes |
| Monica Rodrigues | yes |
| Shoeshine | yes |
| The Rooms | yes |
| Orders of magnitude (speed) | yes |
| Nesbit Willoughby | yes |
| Symphony No. 7 (Bruckner) | yes |
| Maurizio Nichetti | yes |
| St. John’s Church, Boxmoor | yes |
| O’Neil Ford | yes |
| Hold | yes |
| List of horror punk bands | yes |
| L’Allegro | yes |
| New London, North Carolina | yes |
| James Blackburn | yes |
| Backfire! | yes |
| Ken Kocher | no |
| Helliwell Provincial Park | yes |
| Third Philippic | yes |
| Wabakimi Provincial Park | yes |
| Ikejiri-O-hashi Station | yes |
| PLECS | yes |
| Mario Haas | yes |
| Loleatta Holloway | yes |
| Sangita Myska | yes |
| Gippsland soccer league | yes |
| Brett White | yes |
| Banksia Grove, Western Australia | yes |
| Waterloo-St. Jacobs Railway | yes |
| Anton Nilson | yes |
| Earth Summit | yes |
| Gursum, Oromia (woreda) | yes |
| North Coast Australian Football League | yes |
| Irish National Botanic Gardens | yes |
| Feng Xiaoting | yes |
| Jeff Clyne | yes |
| Mark King | yes |
| Touchdown Atlantic | yes |
| 4th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment | yes |
| Like You Like an Arsonist | yes |
| Lac La Nonne | yes |
| ASM Oran | yes |
| 59th World Science Fiction Convention | yes |
| Volleybird | yes |
| Mira Estrela | yes |
| Hocine Achiou | yes |
| Yakov Vilner | yes |
| Vellinge Municipality | yes |
| Riskbase | no |
| Annona purpurea | yes |
| Baal-hazor | yes |
| Rae Valentine | no |
| William Keil | yes |
| National flags inspired by the flag of Turkey | yes |
| Fukuno, Toyama | yes |
| Byavatnet | yes |
| St Stephen’s House, Oxford | yes |
| Two-price advertising | yes |
| All Nepal Trade Union Federation (Revolutionary) | yes |
| Nick Nostitz | yes |
| Ultra Mobile Broadband | yes |
| War Wind II: Human Onslaught | yes |
| La Libertad, Francisco Morazán | yes |
| Lycaenopsis | yes |
| Oscar Heisserer | yes |
| Endemic Bird Areas of the World: Priorities for Biodiversity Conservation | yes |
| Ivy Compton-Burnett | yes |
| De Beste Med Di Derre | yes |
| Unterseeboot 65 | yes |
| Prolefeed | yes |
| Setaka, Fukuoka | yes |
| Barcaldine Shire Council | yes |
| Love Is in the Heir | yes |
| James Shapiro (disambiguation) | yes |
| The Anthony Nolan Trust | yes |
| Fire Prevention Week | no |
| I Don’t See Me in Your Eyes Anymore | yes |
| Juan Miranda (baseball player) | yes |
| Apple Inc. | yes |
| List of asteroids/100301–100400 | yes |
| Gordon Van Gelder | yes |
| Small appliance | yes |
| Tahyna Tozzi | yes |
| Greece at the 2002 Winter Olympics | yes |
| Elmer White | yes |
| Drift seed | yes |
| Connie Price-Smith | yes |
| Bernard VIII of Comminges | yes |
| St Mary High School, Jamaica W.I | yes |
| Koudelka (Barrayar) | yes |
| Riverside South (Canary Wharf) | yes |
| Southeastern Film Critics Association | yes |
| Mick Cripps | yes |
| John Milne | yes |
| Sugar palm | yes |
| Canadian Pulp and Paper Association | yes |
| Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | yes |
| Allstate 400 at the Brickyard | yes |
| Pango | yes |
| Elizabeth Harrower | yes |
| Madre de Deus | yes |
| Melitaea diamina | yes |
| Estadio Edgardo Baltodano Briceño | yes |
| Nezahualcoyotl | yes |
| Entering the Arena | yes |
| Law Concerning the National Flag and Anthem | yes |
| Krosno | yes |
| Biostimulation | yes |
| Freiberg (district) | yes |
| Llancanelo Lagoon | yes |
| James Chance | yes |
| Rens van Eijden | yes |
| Killer Ds | yes |
| Shoprite (Isle of Man) | yes |
| Tara Brach | yes |
| Collomia | yes |
| Spring Hill Mall | yes |
| Birkir Bjarnason | yes |
| CAUS | yes |
| Lake Erie Beach, New York | yes |
| Drusus Claudius Nero | yes |
| Crisis theory | yes |
| Win My Soul | no |
| 1623 in art | yes |
| Sandhills Horticultural Gardens | yes |
| List of departments at the CUHK School of Medicine | yes |
| Chewy Granola Bars | no |
| Bungoma | yes |
| Montenegro women’s national handball team | yes |
| Humacao Airport | yes |
| United Nations Security Council Resolution 31 | no |
| Judith (homily) | yes |
| 1950 in organized crime | yes |
| The Trouble with Girls | yes |
| Bermuda Principles | yes |
| Inviscid flow | yes |
| ABS-CBN News Channel | yes |
| OFI Sunday | yes |
| Sandbridge Beach, Virginia | yes |
| Framingham Earl High School | yes |
| NAPA Auto Parts 200 | yes |
| The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap | yes |
| Spanish Match | yes |
| Lansing Bagnall | yes |
| Dallas Public Library | yes |
| A Year at the Movies: One Man’s Filmgoing Odyssey | yes |
| Orange bellowsfish | yes |
| Mary Arden (judge) | yes |
| André Dumortier | yes |
| Diocese of Riobamba | yes |
| Ashikaga Yoshinori | yes |
| List of Anti-consumerists | yes |
| Sipsey River (disambiguation) | yes |
| A.S. Pizzighettone | yes |
| Virago (Star Wars) | yes |
| Majšperk | yes |
| A Single | no |
| Fuse (Colin James album) | yes |
| Robert Lincoln Poston | yes |
| List of notable Old Harrovians | yes |
| Diana Haddad | yes |
| Video Gems | yes |
| When They Lay Bare | yes |
| List of Intense Football League seasons | yes |
| Ornithosuchidae | yes |
| Charles W. Freeman, Jr. | yes |
| Torpedo | yes |
| Live in Nottingham | yes |
| 1990 in literature | yes |
| Disappearing Rainbow Indicator | yes |
| Back Up Dancer | yes |
| Ayer Rajah | yes |
| HMS Forth (1938) | yes |
| Shae Marks | yes |
| Interstate 295 (Delaware-New Jersey) | yes |
| Graydon Creed | yes |
| Single-instance storage | yes |
| Running the Halls | yes |
| Schutzbach | yes |
| Nik Mrdja | yes |
| George Meany | yes |
| Worldbeat | yes |
| Adraskan District | yes |
| Park-McCullough Historic House | yes |
| Steggerda | yes |
| Chokhamela | yes |
| Woodville Football Club | yes |
| Bend Ova | yes |
| Elizabeth Earl | yes |
| Kaburu | yes |
| Jikininki | yes |
| VU meter | yes |
| Gary Numan | yes |
| Jaghun | yes |
| List of ethnic slurs by ethnicity | yes |
| Banco Itaú | yes |
| Denis Lamoureux | yes |
| South West Caucasian Republic | yes |
| Attacks affecting Lebanese industry in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict | yes |
| Pictures of You | yes |
| South Dublin (UK Parliament constituency) | yes |
| Graeme Edge | yes |
| Salvadora persica | yes |
| African Journal of AIDS Research | yes |
| Irish Americans in New York City | yes |
| Parallel Lines | yes |
| Ken Strong | yes |
| Potton United F.C. | yes |
| Jean Étienne Bercé | no |
| Pera Skafi | yes |
| Bahamas at the 1952 Summer Olympics | yes |
| S,ilki | yes |
| Cocles | yes |
| Mwotlap | yes |
| Conspiritus | yes |
| Be Ever Wonderful | yes |
| Amaliricus | yes |
| Choral scholar | yes |
| Jorquelleh District | yes |
| Kolber | yes |
| Gugelhupf | yes |
| Demister (Vapor) | yes |
| International Baseball League of Australia MVP | yes |
| Verona Island, Maine | yes |
| Cyprus Cycling Federation | yes |
| Isaac Fraser | no |
| Estonian Air | yes |
| Maurepas | yes |
| MHC class I | yes |
| Byzantine ancestry of Greek Royal Family | yes |
| Bertran de Born | yes |
| N-skeleton | yes |
| Warpath (comics) | yes |
| Henry Holland (architect) | yes |
| Farz (2001 film) | yes |
| Vincent Hugo Bendix | yes |
| Turkey Ford, North Carolina | yes |
| Winnipeg Transit | yes |
| General Atomics GNAT-750 | yes |
| L’Hospitalet de Llobregat | yes |
| DEVO Live: The Mongoloid Years | yes |
| Rimland | yes |
| Müslüm Gürses | yes |
| Ed Nimmervoll | yes |
| Shiwei | yes |
| FICA (disambiguation) | no |
| List of ethics topics | yes |
| Clan Stirling | yes |
| Richard de Morville | yes |
| John Holtby | yes |
| Sharon Corr | yes |
| Mkhare | yes |
| List of Japanese ski jumpers | yes |
| Murder Love | yes |
| Projet Orange | yes |
| Color of Night | yes |
| Students of AMF | yes |
| Yamatotakada, Nara | yes |
| Archie Campbell’s Cove | yes |
| List of colonial governors in 1787 | yes |
| Bastro | yes |
| Wyoming State Capitol | yes |
| Satu Mare (disambiguation) | yes |
| Back in Baroque… The String Tribute to AC/DC | yes |
| Landsmannschaft Ostpreußen | yes |
| Neo-Taino | yes |
| Evelyn Hart | yes |
| Glycoprotein | yes |
| Dura Convertible Systems | yes |
| Luzhou Branch Line (TRTS) | yes |
| Hoya de Buñol | yes |
| Shlomo Gazit | yes |
| Majerovce | yes |
| Caption | yes |
| Securitas AB | yes |
| Mukkuva laws | yes |
| United States Army Rangers | yes |
| Computer Modern | yes |
| Anuvanahalli | yes |
| Loriga | yes |
| Archana (Hinduism) | yes |
| Metabidiminished rhombicosidodecahedron | yes |
| Burton in Lonsdale | yes |
| Uganda People’s Democratic Army | yes |
| Rhydderch ab Iestyn | yes |
| Strontium sulfate | yes |
| Timeline of the United States Constitution | yes |
| Dragan Joc(ic’ | yes |
| Crusade of Fire | yes |
| Clifton High School | yes |
| Pearl District, Portland, Oregon | yes |
| Bridge River Country | yes |
| Geoffrey Walsh | yes |
| Ferwerderadiel | yes |
| Odzi | yes |
| Lee Atwater | yes |
| 123 | yes |
| Ramoji Film City | yes |
| Merritt Cabal | yes |
| Puckeridge | yes |
| Lambert quadrilateral | yes |
| Jeffrey Morgan | yes |
| Critical path method | yes |
| U.S. Route 277 | yes |
| Steve Biddulph | yes |
| Joey Jeremiah | yes |
| Louisiana gubernatorial election, 2003 | yes |
| The Great BMX Race | yes |
| Second Heat (album) | yes |
| Yellow River (song) | yes |
| Garrick Club | yes |
| Heathcote Williams | yes |
| Lucy Walker (climber) | yes |
| Rasheeda | yes |
| List of asteroids/57701–57800 | yes |
| Midmar Mile | yes |
| Potato ricer | yes |
| Libero International | yes |
| W.S. McIntosh Memorial Leadership Award | yes |
| Colsterworth | yes |
| Charles Malik | yes |
| Casimir Code | yes |
| Francisco MartÃÂnez Jiménez | yes |
| Antigone (disambiguation) | yes |
| Pennsylvania Route 562 | yes |
| Dee Ferris | yes |
| John Reeves Pierce | yes |
| Lynn Oliphant | yes |
| Unshakable Race | yes |
| Serie A 1969-70 | yes |
| List of Grand Prix motorcycle racers: P | yes |
| Kenneth Rose | yes |
| RCW103 | yes |
| Vietnam Television | yes |
| Red Springs | yes |
| Zeuthen (disambiguation) | yes |
| Jaroslav Bednár( | yes |
| Mustafa Sar?gül | yes |
| Eryngium giganteum | yes |
| Click chemistry | yes |
| David Terrier | yes |
| Independence Heights, Houston, Texas | yes |
| Our Lady of Tepeyac High School | yes |
| Greek gardens | yes |
| Institutions offering Mechatronics Engineering | yes |
| Nielson Field | yes |
| Body Glove | yes |
| Bout-coupé | yes |
| Charley Straight | yes |
| D.A. Lizards | yes |
| Arab Times | yes |
| Nerang River | yes |
| Jeff Keeping | yes |
| Gim Allon | yes |
| Nélida Piñon | yes |
| 1979 PBA season | yes |
| Patrick J. Lynch | yes |
| Cardiac Arrest (TV series) | yes |
| Capone (rapper) | yes |
| Thirroul railway station, New South Wales | yes |
| Schwanthalerhöhe (Munich U-Bahn) | yes |
| Yamada, Fukuoka | yes |
| TV Cogeco (Windsor, Ontario) | yes |
| HMS Tre Kronor | yes |
| Jhanda Singh Dhillon | yes |
| Lack of Brains VS. Brawns | yes |
| Maleli Kunavore | yes |
| Scattering amplitude | yes |
| Porsche 989 | yes |
| Green Party of England and Wales | yes |
| Mälaren | yes |
| Butler Capital Partners | yes |
| Sölden Priory | yes |
| Tricky Kick | yes |
| List of mayors in Canada | yes |
| KMOD | yes |
| United Front (India) | yes |
| Cometman | yes |
| Music history of the United States during the Civil War era | yes |
| Norman Collier | yes |
| Madeline Smithberg | yes |
| Minto Airport | yes |
| List of highways numbered 190 | yes |
| Rafik Sorman | yes |
| Lance Broadway | no |
| British Rail | yes |
| Victoriana | no |
| UC San Diego School of Medicine | no |
| David Batchelor | yes |
| Carrozzeria Marazzi | yes |
| Sixteenth Army (Germany) | yes |
| Vyšné Nemecké | yes |
| St. Petersburg Open | yes |
| Cibolo, Texas | yes |
| 198th Infantry Brigade (United States) | yes |
| Giovinezza | yes |
| Gordon | no |
| In the Kingdom of Mao Bell | yes |
| Trifecta | yes |
| Suitcase | yes |
| Jayrock | yes |
| Isabelle Tazbir | yes |
| Elba, Wisconsin | yes |
| Dagorhir | yes |
| StarLAN | yes |
| Cobordism theorem | yes |
| Altaïr (character) | yes |
| These Ones Are Bitter | yes |
| Gila River Indian Community | yes |
| Senarclens | yes |
| Killian documents authenticity issues | yes |
| Music of Finland | yes |
| Katarina Löfström | yes |
| List of people associated with Columbus, Ohio | yes |
| Runaway (Amalgam Comics) | yes |
| Dick in a Box | yes |
| Gunner (American football) | yes |
| Yury Chernavsky | yes |
| Cezaro Rossetti | yes |
| The Sky Is a Landfill | yes |
| Whipped Cream & Other Delights | no |
| With This Ring | no |
| River Barle | yes |
| Spinsterhood | no |
| Cairo Regional Internet Exchange | yes |
| Centerville, Indiana | yes |
| Middle Class Revolt | yes |
| Republic of Virtue | yes |
| Saddleback caterpillar | no |
| Mihail Majearu | yes |
| Fulfillingness’ First Finale | yes |
| Mesad Hashavyahu | yes |
| Exeter, Illinois | yes |
| Mark Teltscher | yes |
| Alfred Edward Gaby | yes |
| List of politicians on Jack and Bobby | yes |
| K. K. Downing | yes |
| Rick Duff | yes |
| Law enforcement in Saint Kitts and Nevis | yes |
| Eamonn Walker | yes |
| Configware/Software-Co-Compilation | yes |
| Electoral division of Barkly | yes |
| Greenup Commercial Historic District | yes |
| Vue at Brickell | yes |
| Sestos | yes |
| Response amplitude operator | yes |
| USS Adder (SS-3) | yes |
| The Kid America Club | yes |
| Alfred Stelzner | yes |
| Alenia Aeronautica | yes |
| List of Sonic X episodes | yes |
| Tunnel vision | yes |
| 117th Regiment of Foot | yes |
| Blancheflour and Jollyflorice | yes |
| Michal Viewegh | yes |
| Ticket | yes |
| Keio- 7000 series | yes |
| WKAQ | yes |
| Pabillonis | yes |
| Sheldon Roberts | yes |
| Streetheart (band) | yes |
| Chariot tactics | yes |
| Blaga Dimitrova | yes |
| Blue Skied an’ Clear (album) | yes |
| Bahariasaurus | yes |
| Sudanese Air Force | yes |
| William Blundell | yes |
| NZL-92 | yes |
| Žagare. | yes |
| Silent Rivers | yes |
| Matti Hagman | yes |
| Silicon Gulf | yes |
| Wally Lamb | yes |
| St Botolph’s Aldgate | yes |
| Polytheistic reconstructionism | yes |
| A Taxing Woman 2 | yes |
| Daniel Quinteros | yes |
| Ben Berger | yes |
| Town Called Dobson | yes |
| Mandy Hampton | yes |
| Benjamin Block | yes |
| Untitled Gorillaz project | yes |
| The Early Bird Show | yes |
| National Labor Committee in Support of Human and Worker Rights | yes |
| Liu Shueh-Shuan | yes |
| Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople | yes |
| Saturday Sneak Preview | yes |
| Avistar | no |
| Meera Kosambi | yes |
| King George Square, Brisbane | yes |
| West Australian Women’s Football League | yes |
| Multiply (website) | yes |
| United States Organized Crime Strike Force | yes |
| Cricket 07 | yes |
| International Socialist Organization (New Zealand) | yes |
| Albert Edward Smith | yes |
| Totals | 580/600 (96.66%) |
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This is really scary. Throw in YouTube and then add 8 other sites of this caliber and the top 10 will be pretty predictable across the google SERPs.
Feel like check these in Yahoo?
Hi,
the numbers are interesting but not that surprising. Some of the naming conventions of Wikipedia will make it highly unlikely that other sites have chosen the same title for it. therefor, adopting Wikipedia’s naming convention for these kind of searches will develop a strong bias in favour of finding Wikipedia pages in the top 10 or even top 5. One good example for this is “Attacks affecting Lebanese industry in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict”.
The question that is more interesting to me is: How many real life search queries result in a search results page that contains wikipedia within the first 10 results.
Mathias
Then, you don’t think that google is becoming less relevant ? Next time, go directly to wikipedia….
Like the previous commenter stated, the actual numbers are probably a bit lower.
Nevertheless, I /love/ that most things I search for will have an easily-clickable Wikipedia link. They tend to have the most authoritative information about most things, they aren’t commercial, and are the most relevant — why wouldn’t I want them to be in the top 10?
even with the searchmash UI which has the wikipedia pages on right by default, they STILL come up on the normal SERP.
Time towork on the algo google.
OR could it be why wikipedia’s search sucks so bad, so that everyone searches, “foo bar wiki” on google thus boosting wiki in the SERP, food for thought.
It’s only outrageous if the Wikipedia page beat out another page that was a better source of information.
No doubt Wikipedia has a lot of Google’s trust and a high PageRank so it’s really no surprise that many Wikipedia articles rank well.
When interpreting your results one should consider that you used the page titles, some of which are probably only used by Wikipedia as titles and are also part of the articles URLs.
So it would be interesting to see the results from another quality site, say the main page has a PageRank of 5, the domain is older than one year, and the site is well optimized for search engines. Choose some of the site’s articles and search for their titles. I think you will end up with a high percentage of top ten ranks as well.
The numbers are speaking the truth that Google is in favour of Wiki. This must be one big drawback on part of Google.
I don’t see a problem here
wikipedia is an authoritative site with great content and incoming links.
The terms above are fairly randomand obscure with not much competition in the SERPs
I’m sure that most SEOs could get a page in the top 10 for most of the terms above as well.
A more meaningful study would target terms that are much more competitive (eg popular film titles, consumer goods, etc). In such a study I would not be surprised to see wikipedia in the SERPs – but that is the time to start asking questions
I don’t see how this is bad in any way. Most of the time, wikipedia does indeed have the best information you can get on a topic you search for, it has no ads on it, and it allows you to easily dig deeper into all the info, as the pages are so well interlinked.
I do, however, sense a slight hint of jealousy.
Wikipedia, Google Blog/Site, YouTube and Digg – these sites outrank everyone in the SERPS. If a keyword appears in any of these sites you can bet that they get the top ranks while the sites they link to or sites that have beter information are pushed to the back. I’ve seen cases where the top 8 results are from these sites like Google Blog is #1 because it made a passing remark about a keyword (2 sentences), YouTube is #2 because someone made a video about the Google blog sentences, and then a Digg article linking to the youtube video discussing the google blog setence..followed by 3-4 other comment pages from the Google Blog and the full comment page from youtube. All together something like 6 of the 10 SERP placeholds were kept within those 3 sites, the other 4 were the actual sites being discussed within the google blog, the video and the digg post.
By choosing random articles, it is likely-and seems to be the case-that most of the articles chosen will be about very trivial topics, about which there is probably very little other information available to begin with. Being in the top 10 out of 11 relevant pages is hardly an accomplishment.
And your point? First, like many of the other commenters stated, your research method seems to be a little bit off – searching the string “Bahamas at the 1952 Summer Olympics” is going to bring Wikipedia up because THAT’S THE NAME OF THE ARTICLE! Also, the way they name their pages, it becomes part of the URL. So maybe 2% of people actually would put something like that into Google, the rest of us would actually search something like Bahamian Olympic Team, or Summer Olympics 1952, Bahamas. Are you trying to imply that some darker force is at work here? You make these claims, but then don’t follow up with anything else? So again, my question to you is “What’s your point?”
I ran these 600 titles against Yahoo’s API, and 92% of them were within the first 10 results, and on the second place at average.
Russ, I discovered your post thru Search Engine Journal and I have to say it is very impressive. For the french keywords it is exactlty the same problem (the dominance of Wikipedia in search results). I guess it is the same in many other languages ! 🙁
Congratulations for the post.
Putting so much weight on a single site is more detrimental than beneficial to the user. I think that Wiki got so popular that Google can hide it from serps without harming the site in any way. Who doesn’t know about Wiki after all?
Google wants the best most relevant info for search engine results pages (SERPS)
Wiipedia has similar aims
Whats to wonder
I’m not surprise at all 🙂