Comments on: Interesting Study Of Yahoo and Google

By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:35:00 +0000

Nice Article! However I expected Wikipedia to occur more often on the SERPs at Google or Yahoo. Wikipedia receives a lot of traffic due to its quality and popularity in Germany. When searching for definitions or precise information, I always use Wikipedia first and the Google. I wrote an article in my Blog about this.

http://www.webzweinullblog.de/google-yahoo-lieben-wikipedia/

By: Xin

Xin — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 06:22:47 +0000

Another explanation is that wikipedia’s popularity has attracted more hyperlinks and traffic over last couple years. If you rank a site by its PageRank and traffic, it’s not surprising wikipedia pages are among top returned results.

By: Mike Mothner

Mike Mothner — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:01:22 +0000

I’ve noticed this trend as well on both Yahoo and Google and it is now becoming an expectation that when a general topic-related non-commercial related search is done, Wikipedia should come up as the first or second link in the natural listings. In fact, it is now becoming a rarity if it doesn’t come up as one of the top sites listed in a search.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:49:20 +0000

Or the fact since the last sample Wikipedia has added nofollow to almost all external links?

By: nmw

nmw — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:49:46 +0000

Interesting -- and apparently well done, too.

Is there a difference between searching wikipedia.org using firefox's search bar and searching wikipedia.org directly on the http://wikipedia.org site?

By: Steve Flinn

Steve Flinn — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:16:32 +0000

How is it explained? Obviously it’s simply that wikipedia is indeed increasingly the destination of choice for a good portion of non-commerce related searches, and the algorithms are reflecting that rather than being deficient. I very often type in the search term plus “wikipedia” when searching, as I am very likely going to get a higher quality initial point of information versus alternative pages. Flight to quality is therefore the short answer.