Comments on: Google Traffic To Wikipedia up 166% Year over Year

By: Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing

Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing — Tue, 15 May 2007 13:16:53 +0000

Google Sending Wikipedia A Ton Of Traffic

Google Traffic To Wikipedia up 166% Year over Year by Hitwise’s LeeAnn Prescott gives us some of the data search marketers have been craving for years. We all knew that Wikipedia tends to rule in the Google results but these statistics show us by how m…

By: Ant

Ant — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:33:50 +0000

I'm personally fed up with Wikipedia being always on top of Google results and I think this decreases the relevancy of Google itself and the fun of discovering new sites thanks to Google searches. After long searches, I've found a way to hide remove block Wikipedia pages from Google results. It's a Firefox extension called Google Customize http://www.customizegoogle.com/ that allows this. Just add http://*wikipedia.org/* to the filter section of the options of this add-on and you'll be all set.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 01:37:56 +0000

Wikipedia is growing rapidly and Google is the only search engine that is trying to keep up with this growth.

By: Marios Alexandrou

Marios Alexandrou — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 21:49:14 +0000

It’d be interesting to graph the traffic to Wikipedia as compared to the number of pages on Wikipedia. More traffic without a corresponding increase in pages would validate anecdotal evidence that Wikipedia’s influence is growing.

By: mark

mark — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:53:21 +0000

Well, it’s kinda obvious. Wikipedia is becoming to be a much better resource everyday, just like Google.

By: Nick Reynolds

Nick Reynolds — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:54:06 +0000

Will the fact that Google recently added a function so that if you add “info” to your search term any Wikipedia entry is ranked first make this increase even higher?

By: peter caputa

peter caputa — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:33:24 +0000

It’s interesting how myspace sends wikipedia as much traffic as ASK. Is that because myspace users are linking-to wikipedia OR is it because of people using myspace to search?

By: Google Inside

Google Inside — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 00:24:04 +0000

Wikipedia Love from Google

Google, sending almost 50% of all referral traffic to Wikipedia, sure does like Wikipedia. Why? It’s a trusted source. Wikipedia has thousands upon thousands of backlinks and they are a trusted source.
Why are they trusted? They’re tru…

By: Hans Lysglimt

Hans Lysglimt — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 04:25:52 +0000

Very informative.
Google might want to capture this traffic for themselves at some point.
Google may be somewhat restricted in just blatantly copying the entire Wikipedia into a wikipedia.google.com and slapping ads on it for their own profit.
However Google could establish a new non-profit organization for this purpose that would do Wikipedia with ads and use this new organizations revenue for some desired purpose.
Hans Lysglimt
http://www.lysglimt.com

By: Anita

Anita — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 21:25:10 +0000

Wow, that’s a serious increase. However, if Wikipedia’s share of U.S. traffic visits was up by 143%, but Google’s downstream traffic to Wikipedia was up 166%, wouldn’t that mean that other search engine’s share downstream share increases were probably much lower than 143%?
I’ve always noticed that Wikipedia articles seem to get ranked much higher in Google than other search engines, to me your analysis shows this.