A Wikimedia spokesperson said Google’s heavy use of the Wikipedia data is “suitable” but didn’t indicate whether the site is seeing more or less Google traffic since the Knowledge Graph debuted for all English language users.
The donation was made to the Wikimedia Foundation - the company that runs Wikipedia. This grant is an important endorsement of the Wikimedia Foundation and its work, and I hope it will send a signal as we kick off our annual fundraising campaign...
Experimental news platform opens to wider audience while Google tests ethical boundaries with Wikimedia donation. In light of this, it comes as no great surprise that Google has donated $2 million to Wikimedia, which of course is the entity behind...
Wikimedia/Heilig|1947 Flickr/KayVee.INC The session title "SEO vs. PPC: The Ultimate Search Battle" insinuates some kind of inevitable victory of one opponent over the other; despite well-placed jabs delivered from both corners of the panel, the...
Wikimedia's 2007 Financials Posted, TechCrunch We've collected all the search marketing news from selected posts to the Search Engine Watch blog in the past week, along with recent search-related headlines from around the Web.
Wikimedia's 2007 Financials Posted, TechCrunch Here we've collected today's top news stories posted to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with search-related headlines from around the Web: From the SEW Blog:
And Google's best friend, Jimmy Wales, is making headway with Wikia Search, his admittedly “poor” but improving search engine that integrates the philosophies of Wikimedia and user-generated content. Reading the search headlines these days, it may...
The Sitemaps protocol used by Google has been widely adopted by many Web properties, including sites from the Wikimedia Foundation and the New York Called Sitemaps, taking its name from the precursor system that Google launched last year, all...
Postscript Barry: ClickZ has a quote from Wayne Saewyc, a Wikimedia spokesperson saying, "As far as I am aware, the Wikimedia Foundation is not purchasing Google ads, or any other advertisements for that matter.
Click Answers, Wikipedia Edition advertising revenues will be split with The Wikimedia Foundation. said Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia founder and Wikimedia Foundation President. Word from Answers.com that they have partnered with the Wikipedia Foundation...
Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikimedia Foundation More Yahoo mojo? We read a few weeks ago about how Google might help the Wikipedia by providing server space and bandwidth. A few minutes ago I spotted this news release about Yahoo announcing or perhaps...
A post at Dirson kicked off a Slashdot discussion about Google offering to host "some" Wikimedia content. A post on the Wikimedia wiki says that "terms" of the offer are being discussed and that a private IRC meeting is scheduled for March.
A post at Dirson kicked off a Slashdot discussion about Google offering to host "some" Wikimedia content. A post on the Wikimedia wiki says that "terms" of the offer are being discussed and that a private IRC meeting is scheduled for March.
