Google in Love with Wikipedia – Enough is enough
Okay, so I find Wiki to be useful in many ways, but for gods sake Google, stop making it compete for business terms.
If Wiki is a non commercial electronic knowledge base, why is it ranking for commercial terms?
Why is it that when I search for Web Design Wiki is beating the crap out of my companies website, that IS in fact dedicated to ..Guess what.? Web Design.
Isn’t the quality of the results in search dictated by relevancy?
So how relevant is Wiki for a user that is looking searching for Web Design?
What is the probability of this user looking for the meaning of the term rather then companies that offer the service?
Most of the times, if I want to look for the meaning of something and want a Wiki results I’ll just add WIKI in front of the term that I am searching for.
To understand this fixation of Google with wiki, take a look at Search Mash ( Google’s Search testing platform) and you will see Wiki as a default result on the right column of all your searches.
It’s still annoying, but at least it isn’t competing for the regular organic search results.
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