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?"

Comments

Re:Giving back

[zappepcs]

Probably not. Imagine trying to reinvent the wheel, every time someone changes a tread pattern? MS did a lot of that, and with the do no evil mantra, supporting Wikipedia while collecting revenue from searches is donoevil+catchrevenue = ftw

By supporting Wikipedia Google continues to catalog and index the world's information. When you add it up, it is just Google doing what Google said it would do, making alliances along the way to make it profitable.

Re:No. No one remembers

[cheftw]

I came here to post what parent said, and subsequently got modded troll for.

Could someone please link the the list of views that qualify as troll?

Re:No. No one remembers

[garaged]

I would be impressed if they delivered the whole 3.8B to ALL the people not getting any help on yearly basis, if they managed to get 3.8B, they can accomplish to get similar figures on a few years, there is way more good on puting the money where needed that "economizing it" to "be able to help for more years".

Re:No. No one remembers

[RazorSharp]

Does it really matter whether Google or Gates has spent MORE on things which can be listed on one's taxes as "charity?" Of course Bill Gates outspends every other charity. It's no different than how Microsoft is run. Outspend everyone else because glory is more important than efficiency, market dominance is more important than shareholders. How would Bill get all the press he's so desperate for if someone else had a better charity organization. Perhaps if he didn't feel the need to call the press and be an interview whore every time his foundation spend a penny I would suspect that he may be sincere but I really don't buy it. It's not like his foundation needs press, as you pointed out, it's not funded by donations.

To paraphrase Anthony Burgess, "It's not good deeds that makes one good, but good intent."