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The Tangled Relationship Between Jimbo Wales and Google

By: Fast Company StaffWed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:19 AM

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Wikipedia

Wikipedia, for its part, gets around one-third of its traffic from referrals from Google's search engine.

Google

Google gets a lot of traffic from people interested in Wikipedia.

Google's top searches for 2006
  1. Bebo
  2. MySpace
  3. World Cup
  4. Metacafe
  5. Radioblog
  6. Wikipedia
  7. Video
  8. Rebelde
  9. Mininova
  10. Wiki

Meanwhile, Wikia relies on text ads generated by Google.

Wikia

Although Wikipedia and Wikia are separate ventures, they both share Wales as their founder, and inevitably, the kind of person who volunteers for Wikipedia will volunteer for Wikia.

Topics:

Leadership, Leadership mentoring, Wikimedia Foundation Inc., Google Inc., Software, Computer Technology, Science and Technology

From Issue 114 | April 2007

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September 25, 2009 at 12:15am by Christopher Jeschke

Google gets a lot of traffic from people interested in Wikipedia.

very interesting post! thanks for your insight!

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