{"id":66,"date":"2006-10-13T01:51:59","date_gmt":"2006-10-13T00:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kiberpipa.org\/~gandalf\/blog\/?p=66"},"modified":"2006-10-13T01:53:07","modified_gmt":"2006-10-13T00:53:07","slug":"seeing-lots-of-wikipedia-in-your-google-searches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/seeing-lots-of-wikipedia-in-your-google-searches\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing lots of Wikipedia in your Google searches?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In August and September 2006 various bloggers (Nicholas G. Carr<\/a>, Steve Rubel<\/a>, Tim Bray<\/a>, and others) started to notice that Wikipedia often shows up on Google for their searches.<\/p>\n

To research this recent phenomena more throughly I decided to try to do a simple random sampling on whole Wikipedia (together with redirects makes it to ~2.7 million titles) and then try to Google, Yahoo and MSN those articles.<\/p>\n

So, how likely is it? It turns out that it is very<\/b> likely actually. You have about 81 %<\/i> chance to get Wikipedia link in top 10 results.<\/p>\n

(pictures follow, so if you don’t see them in your RSS feeds go to my blog page)<\/p>\n

Here is a nice pie for Google Wikipedia results count for top 10 results:<\/p>\n

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and we can do this of course also for other search engines like Yahoo! or MSN. This gives us nice combined trend lines:<\/p>\n

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But then comes the question, how high do those Wikipedia articles rank? Well it turns out that if you are Yahoo it’s probably #1 result in ~47% of cases and in top 3 in ~76% cases. It’s in top 3 for Google only in ~66% of cases.<\/p>\n

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If you want to read more about it you can download Full report<\/a> (PDF, 7 pages) and also check out Appendix<\/a> that has more pictures and also statistical outputs if you feel like doubting my interpretations or would just like to see more detailed numbers behind it.<\/p>\n

Special thanks go to Matej for giving me helpful hints about sampling methodology and professor Hercules Dalianis<\/a> who approved this subject as my assignment and thus forced me to actually finish it.<\/p>\n

Please post any suggestions or comments about this research in comments. If there is enough interest for further analysis I will be extend it with time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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