Wikipedia Has 96.66% Google Penetration
Via ThreadWatch, this study of where Wikipedia pages appear in Google results for a search for that phrase, and found that in about 580 out of 600 randomly chosen Wikipedia pages, the Wikipedia page appeared in Google’s top 10. That’s just incredible, a number we can pretty much point to and show how much power Wikipedia has in Google, with 96.66% of those pages surveyed making it into the top 10. The only ones that didn’t make it:
- Veil of Darkness
- Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp. v. Public Service Commission
- Group key
- Tacca leontopetaloides
- American Culinary Federation
- WCTI-LP
- Eric Marshall
- YAF
- Line by Line
- Tolleson Union High School
- Ken Kocher
- Riskbase
- Rae Valentine
- Fire Prevention Week
- Win My Soul
- Chewy Granola Bars
- United Nations Security Council Resolution 31
- A Single
- Jean Étienne Bercé
- Isaac Fraser
- FICA (disambiguation)
- Lance Broadway
- Victoriana
- UC San Diego School of Medicine
- Gordon
- Whipped Cream & Other Delights
- With This Ring
- Spinsterhood
I found that I used to Google for things, anticipating to see the Wikipedia entry for it, and go there, without looking at any other results.
Now that I have Internet Explorer 7, I just enter my Wikipedia query in the built in search box (for Google queries, I just use the Toolbar).
I’m /almost/ surprised those keywords didn’t have Wikipedia in the first ten results.
Comment by Tim | June 27, 2007