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Google Donating Bandwidth and Servers to Wikipedia

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the yes-have-some dept.

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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  1. G-Franchise by fembots · · Score: 5, Funny

    1. Gmail
    2. Gbrowser
    3. Ghosting

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    1. Re:G-Franchise by Matt_R · · Score: 5, Funny
      They'll acquire PayPal first

      Gaypal? :-)

  2. Re:For a small price by jm92956n · · Score: 5, Funny

    It is now called Gwikipedia.

    KDE users everywhere are, of course, completely outraged!

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  3. Doesn't that just hit the old g-spot? by rs79 · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  4. Re:For a small price by rsborg · · Score: 5, Funny
    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!

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