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Unlikely that Wikipedia will be able to charge for content, seeing as all of their content is CC-BY-SA licensed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Licensi

Unlikely that Wikipedia will be able to charge for content, seeing as all of their content is CC-BY-SA licensed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Licensing_update https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Licensing_update They may be able to charge for bandwidth (if you want to use a Wikipedia image, you can use Wikipedia's enterprise CDN instead of their own), but their licensing allows me to rehost content as long as I follow the attribution & sublicensing terms. Google has no problem operating their own CDNs, so I find it unlikely that Wikipedia will be able to monetize Google search results in such a manner as you described. Disclaimer: I work for Google; opinions are my own.

aabhay 6y ago
Fine, the content is free. But if your crawlers want access to the content, then pay! Simple as that.
- rezonant 6y ago
  Will it be a flat fee, so that I, a lowly one-man crawler developer will not be able to afford it? Will it be that only Google can afford it, thus making their monopoly position even stronger? Is there a Wikipedia crawling "welfare" program if I'm not a trillion dollar mega company?
  - dannyw 6y ago
    Actually, yes! The current API is free. The new Enterprise API is paid.
  - aabhay 6y ago
    Sure! Apply to become a crawler. And if you meet certain criteria and your crawlers don’t exceed a quota then have at it. The key is not to make it technically challenging, but to erect a legal barrier.