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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. Yahoo! is turning around... by k3v1n · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It certainly seems like Yahoo! is turning back around, hot on Google's heals. With Yahoo 360, Flickr, and their developer tools, it seems like they are becoming relevant (again.)

    1. Re:Yahoo! is turning around... by Espectr0 · · Score: 4, Interesting
      The author's contention is that Yahoo! has caught up to Google in nearly aspect, and have surpassed them in several areas.
      I read that article.
      1. Says yahoo mail has the same 1gb space. Now gmail has 2, and even if it didn't, gmail is better
      2. Says yahoo maps is better because it has live traffic. I tried it out, and got the same map image with or without the traffic indicator. So i guess i had bad luck
      3. Developer tools. I don't use them so i don't know if yahoo's are better
      4. Yahoo has movie search. But IIRC, google announced that too some days ago
      5. Better research labs. Yes, yahoo seems to announce researchers and lets you download papers. It has yet to be seen if the stuff they can cook up with is better than google's. So far, i like google maps better and google suggest
      6. Search is still google's strength. I went to the yagoohoogle site, and searched for itself. Guess which search was better? Google's number 1 link was yagoohoogle, yahoo was some weird site talking about it
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  2. Re:How about from two? by CDarklock · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I don't see how a vendor can influence a Wiki any more easily than it can influence the market. It strikes me that you would have to fundamentally alter the way Wikipedia works for any such influence to make even a slight difference.

    Of course, I might be overlooking something. How do you suggest the vendor might influence Wikipedia? What could a similar site do to prevent such influence?

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  3. Re:good news by slapout · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If wikimedia starts becoming evil, someone can (and will) fork the project and re-release the entire thing.

    I certainly hope so. Remember what happened to CDDB (aka Gracenote)? And to a lesser extent IMDB.

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  4. Re:Bad trend by c0p0n · · Score: 3, Interesting

    sure, because any other free resource on the internet is more trustworthy than the wipiedia you mean?

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  5. Re:good news by gowen · · Score: 2, Interesting

    But those were possible because the (lack of) license / copyright on the information enabled the guardians of that information to make a succesful "Knowledge Grab"

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  6. BIAS! by Swamii · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Search for Slashdot on Yagoohoogle, and what do you get? THIS!

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  7. Yahoo isn't that far behind! by JaF893 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yahoo's Q4 2004 profits: $373,000,000
    Google's Q4 2004 profits: $399,000,000
    Hardly a vast difference, the thing that people forget is that while google may perhaps be technologically superior its profits aren't that much greater.

    1. Re:Yahoo isn't that far behind! by gniv · · Score: 2, Interesting
      Yes, but:
      Yahoo employee count: 7600
      Google employee count: 3021
      And how much older is Yahoo? They had plenty of time to make bigger profits, yet they don't.
  8. I thought Jimbo had already sold out to Google... by FooAtWFU · · Score: 4, Interesting

    <jwales> In the interest of full disclosure I should add that Google
    gave me a pen that lights up.
    <jwales> When I saw that, I was like "oooh, pen!" and then I was soooo
    mesmerized that I signed over the rights to everything. ha ha.

    (actual quote, on IRC. It's funny; laugh.)

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  9. Too many links. by AyeRoxor! · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Sometimes, too many links can obfuscate important content instead of helping to direct interested parties to it.