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Google is donating $2 million to the Wikimedia Foundation
- SlyShy 17y agoIt makes sense to me. The Wikimedia foundation greatly enriches the quality of Google's search results for the majority of users. I almost always want the Wikipedia article when I search for something.
- _delirium 17y agoI agree--- to a large extent the consolidation of useful information on almost any topic Foo at Wikipedia has compensated for what'd otherwise be an overall decrease in the quality of Google's results for Foo over the past few years. If you look at what you get back for many general topics excluding the Wikipedia result, it's a morass of SEO'd blogs, referral bait, and other such not-really-content content.
- silvestrov 17y agodid you mean "quality of Google's search results"? Otherwise I can't see the argument for Google donating in your comment.
- _delirium 17y agoThe formal announcement is actually semi-officially available already: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2010-February/056841.html http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2010-Febru...