While people and businesses are always trying to take advantage of Wikipedia’s open-to-all approach to information, not many openly brag about it. But that’s exactly what The North Face and Brazilian agency Leo Burnett Tailor Made did this week in announcing a campaign called “Top of Images,” which aimed to put branded North Face photography […]
Scientist Katie Bouman captures historic image of a black hole. Newsflash: Sex discrimination is systemic on English Wikipedia. To wit: Less than 18% of 1.6 million English Wikipedia bios are about women, up from 15% in 2014. Put another way: of about 1,615,000 bio pages, fewer than 300,000 are about women. Meanwhile, men account for
Duane Forrester, a former Bing representative and experience SEO who is very well respected, supposedly said at PubCon that Wikipedia’s traffic dropped by 21% after Google launched their featured snippets. Patrick Stox tweeted it out from his presentation: Whoa. @DuaneForrester says Wikipedia lost 21% of their traffic when featured snippets were released. #Pubcon — Patrick
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… Amazon is in the top ten most visible websites on Google in six countries San Mateo, February 28, 2019 – Wikipedia retains its crown as the most visible website in Google search results globally based on its performance in organic search in ten countries, including the United States, UK, Germany and France. Second comes
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There was a time not long ago when people claimed to trust Google news results and Wikipedia articles more than the media outlets they linked to. In other words, up until pretty recently Googling was synonymous with a question answered. But that may be starting to change, at least according to one survey, as public
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Google is always evolving. But some things in the world of search never change. One such thing is the presence of Wikipedia across the Google SERPs. From queries about products and brands to celebrities and topical events, Wikipedia still features heavily across Google searches – even while our habits as search engine users change (with
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Founded a mere three years after Google was incorporated, Wikipedia is today the largest multilingual, web-based, free encyclopedia. In fact, it is so high in resources that it is surprising the site didn’t rank a special catchphrase like “Google it” (Personally, I blame it’s unglamorous sounding name). Yet despite that, according to Alexa, Wikipedia today
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article. Source link
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Once again, Google is in trouble with conservative critics because of its perceived anti-Republican bias. The company’s Knowledge Panel for the California Republican party briefly showed that the party’s ideology included “Nazism.” Here’s an image of the Knowledge Panel originally grabbed by Vice News: Google clarified that this was a problem with someone pranking Wikipedia,
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Wikipedia is one of the biggest, oldest and most authoritative websites on the internet which makes Wikipedia backlinks one of the most powerful links on the planet. Honestly, it is hard to do a Google search for any term that doesn’t list Wikipedia in the top 10 nowadays. But are Wikipedia backlinks still as effective
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