96.6% of Wikipedia Pages Rank in Google’s Top 10
While everyone has noticed Wikipedia dominating Google’s search results, this is a little outrageous. After grabbing 600 random pages from Wikipedia (using their special:random link), I conducted searches in Google for each of the titles of the Wikipedia entries. Out of the 600, 580 were in the top 10. Wikipedia Entry Top 10? Czechoslovakia at the 1960 Summer Olympics yes Jefferson Park yes Unity Day yes St. John Vianney High School (New Jersey) yes Veil of Darkness no Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp. v. Public Service Commission no Al-Fakik (crater) yes Group key no Driver Hearing yes Black Lips yes William Shakespear yes Comparative government yes Robert J. White yes Lila Bell Wallace yes William Dodd (Congressional candidate) yes Star (glyph) yes...
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