{"id":2662,"date":"2013-03-04T19:24:14","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T00:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2662"},"modified":"2013-03-04T19:24:17","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T00:24:17","slug":"crowdsourced-wikipedia-google-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2013\/03\/04\/crowdsourced-wikipedia-google-results","title":{"rendered":"Crowdsourced Wikipedia &#038; Google results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In times of &#8220;war&#8221;, Wikipedia can be used to sway Google results. Read: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themalaysianinsider.com\/malaysia\/article\/in-lahad-datu-conflict-google-bombs-and-wiki-wars\/\">In Lahad Datu conflict, Google bombs &amp; Wiki-wars<\/a>. That&#8217;s pretty much what I <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bytebot\/status\/308501900737789952\">tweeted<\/a> yesterday. Just check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Sabah&amp;action=history\">revision history for Sabah<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia tells an interesting tale. Even since 2005, you can see from the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Talk:Sabah\">Talk<\/a> page, that there have been Sulu sultanate claims. All in, just look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/stats.grok.se\/en\/latest90\/Sabah\">traffic stats<\/a> to the page and you see a marked increase in people wanting to know about Sabah.<\/p>\n<p>The page is now semi-protected till March 14, but I doubt the standoff will be over by then, so expect Wikipedia editors to be paying close attention to this page. As for Google, there are benefits to getting the latest information from Wikipedia, but you&#8217;re also vulnerable when non-neutral points of view get displayed (thus making many people claim that Google was hacked!).<\/p>\n<p>I checked <a href=\"https:\/\/duckduckgo.com\/\">DuckDuckGo<\/a> and it seems that they use a much older cache of Wikipedia so was not affected by these Wikipedia changes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Crowdsourced%20Wikipedia%20%26%20Google%20results&body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2013%2F03%2F04%2Fcrowdsourced-wikipedia-google-results&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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Read: In Lahad Datu conflict, Google bombs &amp; Wiki-wars. That&#8217;s pretty much what I tweeted yesterday. Just check out the revision history for Sabah. Wikipedia tells an interesting tale. Even since 2005, you can see from the Talk page, that there have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Crowdsourced%20Wikipedia%20%26%20Google%20results&body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2013%2F03%2F04%2Fcrowdsourced-wikipedia-google-results&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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