nprfreshair: On today’s Fresh Air: the physical spaces that make up the Internet.  (Above: the physical spaces that make up online communities.) (via xkcd: Online Communities) Love it how this is from 2007. It’s an antique.
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nprfreshair:

On today’s Fresh Air: the physical spaces that make up the Internet.  (Above: the physical spaces that make up online communities.)

(via xkcd: Online Communities)

Love it how this is from 2007. It’s an antique.

Last week, Conductor released updated data about Wikipedia’s search visibility, this time including Bing. Wikipedia appeared on Bing’s page one for 31% of searches, and on page two only 5% of the time.
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Last week, Conductor released updated data about Wikipedia’s search visibility, this time including Bing. Wikipedia appeared on Bing’s page one for 31% of searches, and on page two only 5% of the time.

Source: searchengineland.com

While the SEO industry has spent years decrying how well Wikipedia seems to dominate Google’s rankings, it may be that Amazon.com is the real king of visibility.
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While the SEO industry has spent years decrying how well Wikipedia seems to dominate Google’s rankings, it may be that Amazon.com is the real king of visibility.

Source: searchengineland.com

Wikipedia doesn’t pwn Google nearly as much as the SEO industry thinks it does. In fact, according to a new Conductor study, Wikipedia showed up on the first page of Google’s search results only 46 percent of the time in a study using 2,000 unique keywords.
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Wikipedia doesn’t pwn Google nearly as much as the SEO industry thinks it does.

In fact, according to a new Conductor study, Wikipedia showed up on the first page of Google’s search results only 46 percent of the time in a study using 2,000 unique keywords.

Source: searchengineland.com

Why The Wikipedia/Google Search Results Study Is Flawed

The recent study by Intelligent Positioning showed Wikipedia ranks on Google UK for 99% of searches. But the study only used one-word nouns, and as we know, Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia — in large part, a repository of information about nouns. Meanwhile, most search queries are longer than one word nouns. Matt McGee explains how he’d like to see a new study conducted that uses words that mimic actual search behavior instead.