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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."

5 of 451 comments (clear)

  1. News by WillySilly · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And this barely qualifies as news...

  2. Re:It's awesome... by olcrazypete · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    big test of my comments, mod it down P

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  4. Re:It's awesome... by TheWingThing · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I agree with you. In spite of the risk of getting modded off-topic, let me tell you my personal story.

    I had a page about Gateway laptop, which Google removed from search results, probably after complaints from Gateway, one of their advertisers.

    The page did not even have anything biased or untrue, it just stated facts about some hardware bug with the particular laptop model. That's when I lost my trust in fairness of Google. My page went from the top 3 to invisible in search results for "gateway 200 arc". I used to get about 20 unique hits daily through Google before they removed it.

    I reported about the page gone AWOL from their results, and Google reinstated it in their search results. But it went AWOL again, and they never reinstated it, in spite of my three notifications to Google (using the "Dissatisfied? Help up improve") link at the bottom of their search results.

  5. Re:G-Franchise by Victor+Antolini · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I broke my G-string while fingering a minor