The Tangled Relationship Between Jimbo Wales and Google

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

Bebo
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World Cup
Metacafe
Radioblog
Wikipedia
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Rebelde
Mininova
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.

Wikipedia

Google

Wikia

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