Comments on: My Why of SearchWiki https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/my-why-of-searchwiki.html?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Canada's Search and Social Media Authority Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:48:37 +0000 hourly 1 By: Don https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/my-why-of-searchwiki.html/comment-page-1#comment-7258 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:48:37 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/my-why-of-searchwiki.html#comment-7258 Good observation. The idea of preventing people from going elsewhere is interesting to me. It’s like Google wants to increase its time share of the users.

]]> By: Abdulrehman https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/my-why-of-searchwiki.html/comment-page-1#comment-7216 Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:17:22 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/my-why-of-searchwiki.html#comment-7216 Excellent article to supplement the development of Knol. I also wondered for a while why Wikipedia was showing up so high in the searches. Well, even their external related links are nofollow, else people would have really taken advantage of this!

Plus, their internal linking strategy is amazing. Currently, as stats show it is one of those websites which are getting the most traffic from search engines!

]]> By: Malte Landwehr https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/my-why-of-searchwiki.html/comment-page-1#comment-6158 Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:05:34 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/my-why-of-searchwiki.html#comment-6158 I don’t think that Wikipedia is threat to Google. If they really felt that Wikipedia was the best answer for almost every search they could integrate a OneBox result with scraped Wikipedia content, which would be enough to satisfy most users without actually leaving Google.

]]> By: drpete https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/my-why-of-searchwiki.html/comment-page-1#comment-6074 Tue, 09 Dec 2008 01:31:47 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/my-why-of-searchwiki.html#comment-6074 @Ruud – I always seem to get Wikipedia entries when I’m doing something like searching for “Brown’s Chicken” because I’m hungry, but maybe that’s just me 🙂

]]> By: Dr. Pete https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/my-why-of-searchwiki.html/comment-page-1#comment-6068 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:05:53 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/my-why-of-searchwiki.html#comment-6068 It really does seem like Google is trying to play catch-up with SearchWiki, and the intentions behind it are unclear. Maybe it will become more apparent over time, but I just don’t get the value at this point.

It does beg the question, though: if Google is so concerned about Wikipedia, why do they grant the site such high authority? They have complete control over that throttle.

]]> By: Search Engine Placement https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/my-why-of-searchwiki.html/comment-page-1#comment-6060 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:48:59 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/my-why-of-searchwiki.html#comment-6060 Thought provoking Ruud, It just seems that there a re so many possibility of what one can do with the data gathered from the serps. It so hard to say what they will do with the data….

]]> By: Judit https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/my-why-of-searchwiki.html/comment-page-1#comment-6058 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 11:19:07 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/my-why-of-searchwiki.html#comment-6058 That is the way how it goes when you have monopole position on the market. Google has it and it takes of all advantages of it.

]]> By: SEO Company https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/my-why-of-searchwiki.html/comment-page-1#comment-5948 Sat, 06 Dec 2008 14:37:13 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/my-why-of-searchwiki.html#comment-5948 Very nicely written. Google is resisting all sorts of competition over its market share on a basic principle : If you can’t tame it, eat it.
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]]> By: Miguel Salcido https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/my-why-of-searchwiki.html/comment-page-1#comment-5929 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 23:43:14 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/my-why-of-searchwiki.html#comment-5929 Great post Ruud, good insights! I agree with most of us “experts” that it is no bueno. Most people NEED to be told where to go and do not know enough on their own. We need Google to tell us what is most relevant. And when you corner your SERPS to frequent sites you lose out on new and better possibilities.

]]> By: Utah SEO https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/my-why-of-searchwiki.html/comment-page-1#comment-5925 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:08:04 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/my-why-of-searchwiki.html#comment-5925 I’m trying to think how many time I search for the same stuff over n over. Not often.

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