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Yahoo! Search Providing Support to Wikipedia

Posted by Zonk on from the yahoogle dept.

Jamesday writes "Yahoo! Search will also be providing support for Wikipedia. Discussions, started at the same time as the aforementioned Google announcement, have been ongoing with both Yahoo! and Google but only the Google news leaked. It's now more clear why Wikipedia said there was no need to worry about undue influence from any single sponsor."

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  1. Re:How about from two? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yahoo! stopped using Google for searches last year, exactly because Google started becoming a significant competitor.

  2. Re:How about from two? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    However Yahoo! has stopped using Google recently. They redid their search engine in order to present better competition. I remember they had a large amount of press releases about them dropping Google last year.

  3. Re:How about from two? by tquinlan · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sorry, I missed the word "once" in there, it was supposed to say "Yahoo ONCE used Google".

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  4. Wikipedia Editor by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    "Editor which supports Wikipedia Syntax.
    * Wikipedia templates (Ctrl+SPACE)
    * HTML preview rendering
    * export wizard for generating HTML files
    * open a Wikipedia link with right mouse click and selecting "Open Wiki link"
    * HTML pages can be configured with velocity templates
    * update from a Wikipedia page (right mouse click in the editor)
    * HTTP GET Queries from selected editor texts (right mouse click in the editor)

    Changes: * a new context-menu item in the editor for creating all files for a given category [1] * a first Export Wizard to convert Wikipedia articles into a single PDF file. [2]

    [1] http://www.plog4u.org/index.php/Using_Eclipse_Wiki pedia_Editor:Download_a_Wikipedia_Article%23Grabbi ng_a_Category

    [2] http://www.plog4u.org/index.php/Using_Eclipse_Wiki pedia_Editor:Export_to_PDF_File"



    http://www.eclipse-plugins.info/eclipse/plugin_det ails.jsp?id=913

  5. Re:How about from two? by jm92956n · · Score: 3, Informative
    Yahoo was an early investor in Google! From an article on last year's IPO:
    Also due for a big payoff are Yahoo and America Online Inc., which were early Google investors. Yahoo is selling 549,888 shares; AOL will unload 867,149, according to the filing. At $121.50 per share, Yahoo would collect $67 million, while AOL, part of Time Warner Inc., would reap $105 million.
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  6. Re:Yahoo! is turning around... by jm92956n · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Guardian recently published an article that claims Google has "jumped the shark." The author's contention is that Yahoo! has caught up to Google in nearly aspect, and have surpassed them in several areas.

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  7. Re:good news by Moby+Cock · · Score: 4, Informative

    The main thing holding back really is hardware. It often runs too slowly. . .

    I has been a hell of a lot better in that last few weeks. Wikipedia's one fault, in the past, was just what you mention above, however it no longer seems to be an issue.

    Of course, we are all concerned about wikipedia being corrupted by companies, and something awful happening to the whole project.

    I know you refute this point I quote, however it bears further discussion. The very nature of Wikipedia fights corruption. The content is created dynamically such that any 'influence' over the content would have to be universal. Thus, I worry not.