Comments on: Going deeper into the Wikipedia

By: Joseph

Joseph — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:17:46 +0000

Does this cross linking with Wikipedia help increase search engine ranking and position? Does each publisher need to define his article or business type in Wikipedia to achieve this link

By: Muskie

Muskie — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 03:15:12 +0000

Wikipedia is nice, but should not be trusted. All we need to do is create an accesible electronic kowledge base and get people hooked on it. Then it will be easy to change facts and history by cutting and pasting. All information on any reliable resource should have an identifiable author and references. Wikipedia is Orwellian in nature.

By: CTABUK

CTABUK — Thu, 25 May 2006 10:31:39 +0000

I personally like some of Wikipedia, but why Wikipedia over DMOZ, or Yahoo’s own Directory?
Also why is Yahoo shedding so many good quality links from High ranking sites?

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 04:46:53 +0000

I think it’s an incredible thing… keep it up! To be able to access so many topics & sub-topics ad infinitum is very useful.

By: George Laughead

George Laughead — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 13:00:32 +0000

I’ve seen an amazing improvement in Yahoo! search recently — they have not only solved change of site address issues (used to be slower than others), but have not followed google current problems of finding non-alias site addresses, instead of linked one.

That said, there is a real danger to both Yahoo! and wikipedia in showing the subsections — spamming of wikipedia might become a huge problem when the spammer knows exactly where to place their links for each search. Not sure how that can be solved, but am sure it will happen.

Can wiki spend the time necessary to clean-up each of their sites everyday? My interest is more than passing — I volunteer manage the WWW-VL: W3 Search Engines directory.

By: markge

markge — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:58:25 +0000

hi, more than a comment its more a question. I’m interested of building up more unique content on the web, but of course, I’d like to make it in the way that yahoo engines could crawl the site rightly. for example, can could my site be listed as a reference under a search response, like yahoo does and like you show above with Wikipedia.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 15:35:34 +0000

There's already a wikipedia search engine called Qwika. http://www.qwika.com The interface is not so amusing, but the results are preety good.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 09:28:08 +0000

The above 3 posts by Ikey Benney are obviously comment spam. You should implement “nofollow” tags on links here.

Anyway, is this Wikipedia integration a US only thing, because I don’t seem to get it when searching for “coffee” or anything else.

By: RoosterFlu

RoosterFlu — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 23:26:01 +0000

Yeah, it seems this is the trend. Soon the internet will become “the world” and everything will follow wikipedia exemple. Having communities, new communication tools and gizomos like this is way better those days than owning a gold mine, i suppose. Not far for today i found http://www.sayitbold.com . This site is a very simple example. Give ppl a nice tool to play and become rich. The only problem is we should find “the tool”

By: Peter T Davis

Peter T Davis — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 22:19:26 +0000

If the search engines show always Wikipedia as the top results for so many keywords, why shouldn’t people just go directly to Wikipedia and cut out the middlemen?