Comments on: The World According to Wikipedia http://www.globalbydesign.com/blog/2006/09/08/the-world-according-to-wikipedia/ Adventures in web and mobile globalization Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:38:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: » Most Popular Posts of 2007 (Belated Edition) Global By Design: The Web Globalization Resourcehttp://www.globalbydesign.com/blog/2006/09/08/the-world-according-to-wikipedia/comment-page-1/#comment-1591 » Most Popular Posts of 2007 (Belated Edition) Global By Design: The Web Globalization Resource Wed, 10 Jan 2007 03:54:50 +0000 http://www.globalbydesign.com/2006/09/08/the-world-according-to-wikipedia/#comment-1591 [...] The World According to Wikipedia [...] [...] The World According to Wikipedia [...]

]]> By: John Yunkerhttp://www.globalbydesign.com/blog/2006/09/08/the-world-according-to-wikipedia/comment-page-1/#comment-75 John Yunker Mon, 25 Sep 2006 23:15:04 +0000 http://www.globalbydesign.com/2006/09/08/the-world-according-to-wikipedia/#comment-75 I fully agree. Google loves Wikipedia. And the way Wikipedia is structured and language-tagged makes it very easy for Google to spider the site and provide language-specific search results. I fully agree. Google loves Wikipedia. And the way Wikipedia is structured and language-tagged makes it very easy for Google to spider the site and provide language-specific search results.

]]> By: James Ingalsbehttp://www.globalbydesign.com/blog/2006/09/08/the-world-according-to-wikipedia/comment-page-1/#comment-74 James Ingalsbe Mon, 25 Sep 2006 22:37:19 +0000 http://www.globalbydesign.com/2006/09/08/the-world-according-to-wikipedia/#comment-74 Hi John: Just managed to get around to reading your article, good stuff as always. One of the things I've noticed is that foreign language search results, especially those from global versions of google, are returning wikipedia tons of wikipedia links. My guess is that this is driven by google.com ranking wikipedia as a whole very highly (its homepage has a google page rank of 8/10) but also because it has such a high degree of original content written originally in the local language, which means the words used in the articles have a high degree of correlation to the search terms used on google's search engine. --- JAMES --- Hi John:

Just managed to get around to reading your article, good stuff as always. One of the things I’ve noticed is that foreign language search results, especially those from global versions of google, are returning wikipedia tons of wikipedia links. My guess is that this is driven by google.com ranking wikipedia as a whole very highly (its homepage has a google page rank of 8/10) but also because it has such a high degree of original content written originally in the local language, which means the words used in the articles have a high degree of correlation to the search terms used on google’s search engine.

— JAMES —

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