What’s Wrong With Wikipedia in Google Results?
There is a joke circulating about Google’s longstanding “I’m Feeling Lucky” button being replaced by “Wikipedia Results” because results of many search queries contain a link to a Wikipedia article within the first page.
This thought could have been coined by folks who think this is somewhat a bad precedent. After all, Wikipedia is getting the benefit from the efforts of volunteer writers who provide the contents. Google’s apparent emphasis on authoritativeness of a page through link popularity clearly made the difference. Since Wikipedia is not charging its readers and empowering them to edit article contents made the site more popular than Microsoft Encarta and getting some love from everyone (the link to Encarta is even points a Wikipedia page).
