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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Its so hard to get a link in wikipedia unless your Jesus..!
Great research and i’m working on gettin in there somehow 🙂
I use google to search your blog posts’ title, most of them rank in top 10, can you explain this?
i’m pretty sure something is up there i own a candle and diffuser and i find it extremely difficult to get on the top page for 1 keyword. but pretty much wikpedia is in the top three on hundreds of searches i see it all the time either they found a trick or somethings up
The problem is easily solvable. Search for foo bar -inurl:wikipedia.org
Have just done a quick test of the twenty entries on the list that failed the test first time round – now only ten of those failed so the hit rate would *seem* to now be around 98.3%. (Okay, I know, this is meaningless without retesting all the ones that passed the test first time round as well, but I’m including as fails three entries that should really be excluded, so maybe by some miracle it’ll all balance out).
The ones that still fail are:
* Line by Line
* Eric Marshall
* Riskbase
* Rae Valentine (note: the article on Rae Valentine seems to have been deleted since the test was run)
* Win My Soul
* Chewy Granola Bars (note: this article likewise seems to have been deleted)
* A Single
* Jean Étienne Bercé (note: correcting this to Jean Étienne Bercé gives the Wikipedia entry as the first hit on Google, though)
* Victoriana
* With This Ring
Hello,
I find this revelation a little disturbing. So Google is now an aggregator of other directories. I agree with you in that Google needs to maybe rethink its strategy when it comes to grabbing content, just because a site is established.
Or maybe Google should consider creating “third column” for sources such as Wikipedia, Dictonary.com and so on.
What do you think?
Gabe Ali
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How could anyone think Wikipedia is a good source of information? It’s biased crap.
We should be able to use SearchWiki to block entire domains. It’s something simple and obvious.
I’m doing some research on SEO and from what I understand, the more people that link to your page, the more relevant your page becomes to search engines. Since many people link to wikipedia topics on their pages, perhaps this causes wiki’s pages to rank very high.
Mathias Schindler@ as an educated google and wikipedia fanatic (google and wikipedia are my top two research tools by a huge landslide, and I love researching just about everything– or should I say I love “inference-driven” browsing) wikipedia has been at the top of most of my web searches, and probably all of my “normal” searches. Or another way of putting it- if my search involves (a) topic(s) that are considered mainstream, like “yahoo” or “taxes 2009” or “stock market” or “great depression”, etc.- wikipedia always seems to get near-first dibs.
a great deal of my searches are more technical/specific, like “freeciv 2.2 roadmap”, gnome-based linux distros, autoevolution theory- these yield no wikipedia top 10, but neither do they yield any other mainstream-level websites.
pretty much, if you’re looking for something mainstream, wikipedia will most likely be near the top of the list, IMO simply because many people using google are looking for answers, not advertising.
it’s not really suprising. Maybe the information brought to you by wikipedia is not the most accurate on the web. But in order to get introduced to a certain topic it’s absolutley great. So I think this is also the reason why a lot of people backlink wiki. And not to forget about human raters by google, who know wikipedia is not flooded with spam and therefore rate it quite well.
Uuh, I have to say that this was new for me. I´m afraid this is not a compliment for me cause of the date of this post. But never the less: Is there something new to this in the end of 2009? Ralf
It’s not surprising at all. Because all these 600 pages are randomly picked, most of these term are not competitive, so I don’t expect other low authorised websites to beat wikipedia.
However, if you search “iphone”, which is an extremely competitive keyword. Wikipedia doesn’t show on 1st page.
Hi,
I see so many sites like best buy, newegg.com and others have their owne wikipaedia pages. But when i tried to create one for my own site notebookbattery.com where we sell notebook batteries and ac adapters, they would not let me! Wonder why!!
Thanks,
Tom
It’s good for internet users that wikipedia has so high trust for google search engine. Wikipedia articles are far from perfect, many of them are far from objectivity (check same article in multiply language versions f.g.) but… what about other pages, mainly commercials. Are they objective? No way!
It may hurt SEO companies, focusing on cheating search engines and providing their subjective, commercial sites to the top places. In most cases, wikipedia is better then they are.
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Maybe Google should consider creating “third column†for sources such as Wikipedia, Dictonary.com and so on.
Thats unbelievable but done surprise me with this information
love the spell check here.
What if we follow the structure of a typical Wiki page …. do you think we can rank as high? Or we still need the 73000000 links that wiki has?
I can’t believe they rank in the top 10 for that percentage of searches, thats huge! I mean wikipedia obviously do have a lot of authority as a website, but their content can be edited by anyone and is quite often incorrect. For Google to put such trust in them, on EVERY subject, seems a bit harsh, especially when people build websites devoted to subjects and can’t outrank them!
Google and wikipedia share a common religious approach, favouring evolutionary explanations as ‘facts’. This makes their hegemony a stunting factor in world thinking. Try editing wikipedia’s pages about anything to do with evolution, uniformitarianism, Christianity or sciences: you can’t, they’ve been locked by the wiki-gods, to maintain the evolutionary bias.
I really would like to see an update on this case study. Recent changes in the Google algoritme may have caused Wikipedia to move a lot of rankings as I have seen so many shifts
Google did, not too long ago, pretty much claim that the bigger sites, the companies with the deeper pockets were going to be favored. If we can get *everybody* to consistently complain in their complaint box, maybe we can get them to re-focus on delivering what people are searching for, regardless of how big the ‘site’ is. Personally, I’m sick of seeing Wikipedia at the top of most of my searches – they’re never what I’m looking for.
relevancy matter, we can almost evrything informational in wikipedia now, and google may think to acquire even if it is an organisation, dunno what you think about this guys !!!
Why! Because Wiki’s pages matches Google Algorithms exactly.
1. They have plenty of inbound links that link to other relevant content.
2. A lot of content per page, pictures, words etc.
3. High Page Rank (10)
4. A lot of links in from other sites that reference various terms.
They might as well rename google the search engine for wikipedia
hey buddy… i just wanted to say that my Commodore C64 is exploding when I click on the pics… are you using some javascript or something?
relevancy matter, we can almost evrything informational in wikipedia now, and google may think to acquire even if it is an organisation, dunno what you think about this guys
a great deal of my searches are more technical/specific, like “freeciv 2.2 roadmapâ€, gnome-based linux distros, autoevolution theory- these yield no wikipedia top 10, but neither do they yield any other mainstream-level websites.
Throw in YouTube and then add 8 other sites of this caliber and the top 10 will be pretty predictable across the google SERPs.
Maybe Google should consider creating “third column†for sources such as Wikipedia, Dictonary.com and so on.
Wikipedia listings are often very poor–I usually avoid them–it seems inconceivable to me that anything but some strong craving for money/power would cause Google to list Wiki first so often. Does anyone know what the connection between the two is? Wiki and Google are a waste of time–try Bing.
People who are always complaining about how Wikipedia is unreliable don’t know how to use it.
Wikipedia is and never was intended to be an academic journal. It’s a STARTING POINT, not the endpoint of your research. Always take a look at the references used. If it doesn’t have some, don’t trust it, if it does, follow those links to verify the information. Each Wikipedia page has plenty of links to its sources so you can read them on your own. A word of warning, some might go over your head.
The way Wikipedia works is much much more complicated than Youtube. Comparing the two just betrays your ignorance of the inner workings of Wikipedia. Try clicking the Talk Page sometimes. Try browsing the policies, the individual editors, and you’ll realize just how active the whole things is behind the benign mask presented to the public.
It has literally thousands of policies, all aimed at keeping the information as close to the truth and as neutral as possible. Something you wouldn’t find in most other sources (which always has a slant).
If you think it can be improved, why not join the volunteers? Thousands of people from around the world slave each day to give you completely free information that anyone can then copy and even sell (and a lot of people do), simply so it can be reprinted by anyone and redistributed. That’s completely free easily available education. How many other sites can claim that?
Wikipedia is far from perfect. It’s an experiment at free knowledge really. How the heck can you accuse Wikipedia of conspiring with Google or something LOL? It’s noncommercial. Heck, it doesn’t even have a single ad. It doesn’t profit from your clicks, all its money are derived completely from donations.
The reason why Google favors Wikipedia is something very simple: it’s non-profit, it’s completely free, and it’s not evil.
The next time you read a page like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velociraptor try and appreciate that this was written by hundreds of people working in concert to give you the most accurate coverage of the subject as they can. They don’t work for money and the end results of their efforts are simply given away. To you.