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Google Donates $2 Million To the Wikimedia Foundation
k33l0r writes "Yesterday, the Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipedia and other projects, announced that it has received a $2 million donation from Google. This is the first time that Google has supported Wikipedia, and it has many wondering why. Anyone remember Knol, Google's answer to Wikipedia?"
Yep, their results are usually within the top ten and usually what I'm looking for.
Then again.
I don't see them donating to any of the free porn pages.
Don't know something? Look it up. Still don't know? Then ask.
...does that mean WikiMedia will also be classified as kiddie porn in Australia now?
As someone who works with a variety of nonprofits which receive funding from the Gates Foundation, I must say: you are either an idiot, a troll, or a person with remarkably bad skills at satire. Hard to tell. GF funds work all over the world in ways that have nothing to do with corporate proximity or pollution.
This is slashdot. Bill Gates could sacrifice himself saving a toddler from a burning building and most of the comments on the story would likely be to the effect that the reason the building burned down in the firstplace was the firehall down the street had a computer in it running Windows.
Thut meens thut onlee evry too-hudnred-nd-fiftee typoz goze too funnd Wikkimedia. I kno tht I'mm gonnna increaze my owtput too shhow my suppport!
Genocide Man -- Life is funny. Death is funnier. Mass murder can be hilarious.
Google must get huge revenue from searches like $WHATEVER wikipedia
Not from me. I use Wikipedia to find the Google homepage.
... and then they built the supercollider.