Comments on: Remove Wikipedia from the Organic Listings

By: Kurt Vander Bogart

Kurt Vander Bogart — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:41:04 +0000

Wikipedia has there organic act together. They make great use of keywords in Titles, URL’s, Content, H1 Tags and Meta Tags! If other companies worked on there organic indexing this would not be an issue!

By: Cory

Cory — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:01:53 +0000

It’s interesting, I have been researching semantic web indexing. And when you start getting into that area, you can find something really useful for Wikipedia. Wikipedia is a good baseline. The templates that are used to structure the information in the encyclopedia can be used to create real world associates.

That sounds really abstract… but basically, because Wikipedia deals with real world “things” like people, places, things, pop-culture etc., you can use that as a baseline to teach machines to understand associations and interlink related data.

So, while it is still really annoying to see it ranking for “everything” (Currently at #5 in Google), it does have some good uses.

By: Cory

Cory — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:56:25 +0000

“obsessive-compulsive, psychotic few usually ignorant maniacs with nothing to do but revert changes”

Very true Sara.

By: Sara

Sara — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 13:03:10 +0000

anti-intellectualism

By: Sara

Sara — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 13:02:45 +0000

I disagree on one point- Wikipedia is NOT useful. It is an utterly useless, inaccurate unsource of uninformation that will only contribute to the degeneration of our world and to anti-intellectual, hell, just plain anti-accuracy. I want to remove it from all search engines and I would NEVER use it, NEVER. It is run by fascists and contrary to what you state and what many believe, it is not a collection of info by the masses but rather info by some obsessive-compulsive, psychotic few usually ignorant maniacs with nothing to do but revert changes and write irrelevant, propagandistic and inaccurate nonsense and pass it off as facts by the masses.

By: Henry

Henry — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:38:58 +0000

Wikepdia is sometimes valuable at the same time it a
remain of dictatorial control capitalism and its not allowing other op ions at all: therefore Wikepedia is a possible danger for organizations and the free word. The thought control mechanism does not allow other opinions. The so called proof Wikepedia is using can be questioned. Wikepdia does not allow other opinions and is heavily colored in a Political Correct way of thinking (mostly authoritarian non democratic way of working) People working on Wikepedia are trying to influence the public opinion. Read also the book
lying with statistics. Its a company and they are after power and money!!

By: TheMadHat

TheMadHat — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 03:07:25 +0000

I agree with you all the way. I don't necessarily think they should be removed but they rank too well for way too many topics. I recently did an extensive study on Wikipedia ranking for the top terms: Wikipedia Rankings They rank in the top 10 for the top 1800 or so terms 70% of the time. That's a little extreme.

By: David Gerard

David Gerard — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 19:00:26 +0000

Wikipedia used to do really badly in Google. If you searched on a piece of article text, you’d see several Wikipedia mirrors before the original listing …

By: Social Poster » Remove Wikipedia from the Organic Listings : Cory Sessions SEO Blog

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:22:28 +0000

[...] Remove Wikipedia from the Organic Listings : Cory Sessions SEO Blog What I want to know is what about Wikipedia?!Wikipedia is literally dominating search rankings across the board, and in more categories than any other single organization. Please understand, I am a Wikipedia fan. I think what they have built is absolutely amazing. They are the role model for what mass collaboration can do. And it’s a great resource. But it’s really grown out of control in the search engine results. They literally show up for everything now (rank position #7 in Google, 4 in Yahoo, 11 & 12 in MSN for “everything”). [...]

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:18:50 +0000

I can’t agree more – I find wikipedia useful as well but i don’t see there being much point in having pages rank all over the place. Particularly for commercial/sales driven queries.

You might find this useful:
http://www.distilled.co.uk/blog/seo/search-google-without-wikipedia-a-firefox-search-plugin/