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Someone's Been Playing with Wikipedia's Google Coop Feed
October 04, 2007
I won't even bother trying to figure out what "Hannah is a silly billy" means (other than the obvious), but it's worth noting that Wikipedia's Google Co-op feed has been compromised. Or, at a minimum, poorly maintained, as the following shot shows:
For no particular reason, I subscribe to Wikipedia's Google Co-op feed, which means that if Wikipedia has built a custom query result around a particular query -- and I search for that exact query -- then Wikipedia's result will show up first on my SERP -- above all organic results (but not above paid listings).
For the record, here's how it's supposed to work. Following is a "real" Wikipedia Co-op entry, this time for [hank aaron].
The text on the Co-op entry isn't pulled from the actual Wikipedia entry for Hank Aaron. Typically, they're custom written and uploaded through Google Co-op and delivered only to Google account holders who have subscribed to a specific organization's feed.
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posted by Erik Dafforn at October 4, 2007 01:15 PM
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