216.239.37.107
216.239.37.99
64.233.185.99
64.233.189.104

Some of the searches I see are:

christian missionaries (old) (new)

This could have something to do with Wikipedia putting the nofollow on all their links or could just be that some sites are just ranking better than Wikipedia. There are still a lot of terms that are exactly the same.

I guess I just keep hoping that Google will take away the authority status of such a stupid idea of a website. How can anybody link to Wikipedia when what you linked to could change at any time. Google should treat all links to Wikipedia as nofollow because you can’t trust the site.

As of this writing Wikipedia is down. It is probably wishful thinking to hope that it won’t come back up.

I have a teaching jobs website and I noticed in one of the Google result pages that Wikipedia and I both show up on the Wikipedia page was vandalized. (copy (IE only), or pdf in case it gets fixed) I did some research into Wikipedia and that place is a mess. All you have to do is go to the daily posts on the noticeboard/Incidents page to see what a mess that place is.

Google treats Wikipedia like it is a trusted source of information. I do agree Wikipedia does have some pages that are correct and I’m sure the amount of correct information is way in the majority. The problem is erroneous information is dynamic. What might be correct today might be incorrect tomorrow. I can go to any page right now and change data so that it looks right but is a little off and instantly it is public. The people that do obvious vandalism are not the problem the people that do small changes that are hard to detect are the real problems. If the page is not visited often the change may go unnoticed forever.

Wikipedia needs to just shut down. I know they are not going to do this so I think the search engines need to stop giving Wikipedia so much authority. Google is telling the world that it respects the information in Wikipedia. Google not only puts Wikipedia in the index that get special top ranking for any term that ends with the word information. (ex. example) Google gave us the nofollow tag so that website owners could tell Google that it does not trust certain links because they did not put them on the site (ex. comments, forum posts). Just about every page on Wikipedia is made by people who do not work for the website. I say that those pages are the same as comments and should not be trusted by the search engines. Google does not want web sites to use FFA (free for all) link websites. A FFA is a site that posts large lists of unrelated links to anybody who wants them. Wikipedia is a FFA content site and should be treated like a FFA link site.

There were just too many terms where Wikipedia would beat out sites that should be number one just because Google thinks it is the authority on everything. Wikipedia still ranks for a lot of terms but I think Google is finally taking away their cart blanche on ranking. This could be one of Google’s hiccups where they went back to some old algo or to some backup algo or some test. I hope it is not. Wikipedia should rank for some terms when people have linked to it but there is no reason for them to rank for terms when that page has no back links at all and is beating out sites that have all the right stuff to rank higher.

I only have one example and I would rather not disclose it and everybody I asked said they have seen the same thing but did not disclose their terms either. Let me know if you have any good examples I could use. From what I can tell Wikipedia has lost ground on pages that have no back links at all.

The results I’m getting are from some secret Google data center that I can’t access via ip. I can only get it from www.google.com. I wonder if it is some test server. I hope it is something that will go live.

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Also DaveN on the Webmasterradio show www.strikepoint.co.uk pointed out that Ask is now showing the ads with a blue background instead of making them look like the organic results. I have no idea what kind of deal Ask has with Wikipedia but I think this is new.

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