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BibTeX citation key: cuhalev.643
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Cuhalev Jure (2006). « Ranking of Wikipedia articles on search engines for searches about its own articles ». En ligne : <http://www.kiberpipa.or ... kistatus/wikistatus.pdf> (consulté le 14 novembre 2007).
Added by: Laure Endrizzi 2007-11-14 00:12:28 Last edited by: Laure Endrizzi 2007-12-02 10:36:45
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Abstract
During summer 2006 a lot people noticed that Wikipedia is starting to rank very high for their searches on search engines, especially Google. In August 2006, Nicholas G. Carr wrote a series of blog posts (Carr, 2006a and 2006b) in which he began to explore possibilities of centralization of information in Wikipedia and noted that with time the importance of Wikipedia as an information source will only grow.
In September 2006, Steve Rubel published his study on Wikipedia’s Impact on Top 100 U.S. Brands (Rubel, 2006) where he showed that many brands Wikipedia articles rank very high for Google searchs, very often in top 10 results. He highlights the fact that having a good entry in Wikipedia about brand is becoming increasingly more important for brand owner.
Most, if not all, of the observations around this topic deal with subjective experience or with limited research into different fields. Additionally there is a lot of research done on Wikipedia itself but since this phenomenon is relatively new, there has not been more extensive research into it.
In this seminar paper I will try to more systematically research the question of how do Wikipedia articles rank for general search queries that have answer in Wikipedia. To determine this I will analyze Wikipedia rank in top 10 search results for a sample of article titles from Wikipedia in three different search engines. Additionally I will try to determine if above observations are also valid in more general context.
Added by: Laure Endrizzi Last edited by: Laure Endrizzi
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