Google Donating Bandwidth and Servers to Wikipedia

Armstr0ng writes "According to Dirson's blog, Google plans to help Wikipedia by donating bandwidth and servers to handle part of their increasing load. In fact, there's an official page of Google's proposal to host some of the content of the Wikimedia projects."

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G-Franchise

[fembots]

1. Gmail
2. Gbrowser
3. Ghosting

Re:G-Franchise

[PoopJuggler]

Gerbils

Re:G-Franchise

[Xeo 024]

4. G-Unit

You know, for currency.

Re:G-Franchise

[MOMOCROME]

it keeps going:

4. Gspot - recurrent monitor for search terms
5. Gstring - the search term w/ syntax
6. Gmoney - alternative to paypal, with bonus ghetto street cred
7. Gwar - comprehensive music and mayhem
8. Gwiz - digital urine solutions
9. Gman - special searches for feds

Re:G-Franchise

[aussie_a]

G$? (G-String for those that aren't use to equating $ with string ;))

Re:G-Franchise

[Matt_R]

They'll acquire PayPal first

Gaypal? :-)

For a small price

[Anonymous Coward]

It is now called Gwikipedia.

Re:For a small price

[jm92956n]

It is now called Gwikipedia.

KDE users everywhere are, of course, completely outraged!

Re:For a small price

[rsborg]

It is now called Gwikipedia.
KDE users everywhere are, of course, completely outraged!

Of course, something called Kwikipedia makes me think of...

Apu: Thank you, come again!

Slashdot Donating Hits and Trolls to Wikipedia

[mbrubeck]

"According to this post, Slashdot plans to help Wikipedia by using up bandwidth and adding to their increasing load."

I, for one...

[Anonymous Coward]

don't have to finish that sentence.

Uh huh

[discordja]

Yeah, linking it on /. is a great way to help out their "increasing bandwidth" problem

Google

[dmf415]

You have been ASSIMILATED!

Do no evil!

[Space_Soldier]

I guess Google changed its moto from "Do no evil!" to "Help the needy!"

Wow, Wikipedia updates FAST! :-)

[Anonymous Coward]

From Wikipedia's Google entry:
In February 2005, Google announced plans to offer hosting services to Wikipedia.

Re:No ads required

[xstonedogx]

Boy, have I got a wikipedia article to show you.

Why do this?

[Anonymous Coward]

Publicity. got them on /. didn't it?

Doesn't that just hit the old g-spot?

[rs79]

If they ever do pr0n I've got a great name for them.

I WONDER

[Anonymous Coward]

i wonder if they will help octopus-helmet-factory that is also one that is deserving of bandwidth and servers and also my little pony fansite that i work on is a good one too and dont forget about new yourk timse .com that is a good one and also I WONDER IF they will help me wipe my ass for me i needs it done

Re:No ads required

[nettdata]

I would actually not mind Google ads on the bottom of Wikipedia pages if they're relevant. Let's say I'm reading about some scientific shit on there, ...

Hmmm... not sure I'd want to buy some "scientific shit", but hey, each to their own. ;)

Re:I wonder if they will help Gutenburg?

[de1orean]

i think steve gutenberg's career is beyond even the help of google, sadly.

G-Units?

[Aexia]

Google is getting into robotic war machine business?

Re:It's awesome...

[flyingsquid]

The content doesn't have to be hosted on Google's servers for Google to edit the content. Wikipedia articles can be edited by anyone.

You know, I was wondering why the article on cigarettes said that they were non-addictive and good for your health...

Re:Bah

[danila]

This is a bad idea. Wikipedia is so full of convoluted articles it isn't even funny. Don't get me wrong, there's some good information there, but a lot of articles have information in them that makes you go "WTF!"

As opposed to WWW and Usenet archives already indexed/hosted by Google?

G-World of Warcraft?

[Callik]

I wonder if they'd mind donating some bandwidth to the European WoW signup servers =p
http://www.wow-europe.com/en/