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Wikipedia's Five-Year Growth Figure Almost 8,000 Percent

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| On to what Jimmy Wales has to view as good news, then: Nielsen found that the 
| ever-popular Google is a huge fan of his site, sending upwards of 60 percent 
| of Wikipedia's visitors.  
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/05/14/wikipedias-five-year-growth-figure-almost-8000-percent

Google Inching Toward 70%

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| The same general phenomenon is happening in France, where once the government 
| sought to build its own Franco-centric search engine. Google leads other 
| American search engines there, controlling nearly 90 percent of the market, 
| according to XitiMonitor.   
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/05/14/google-inching-toward-70

Another monopoly headache in the making, but it hurts the abusive monopolists
(and their shills [1]) from Redmond.


Recent:

Once shunned by academics, Wikipedia now a teaching tool

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| Wikipedia, the upstart Internet encyclopedia that most universities forbid
| students to use, has suddenly become a teaching tool for professors.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080511/tc_afp/canadascienceinternet


Related:

[1] Microsoft Hires Programmer to edit Wikipedia Entry For OOXML

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/79130/index.html


Microsoft Program Manager: Wikipedia is a Giant Joke

http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=136975bc-b378-4408-bf7e-dbaa28fe21e6
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