Wikipedia has been a great source of information for quite a while. However, it has been severely corrupted either by user or the Wikipedia Team themselves.
Among all interesting take on Wikipedia corruptions, such as censorship, harassments, and conflicts of interests, my favorite part is obviously this remark:
Getting on Wikipedia’s bad side can also harm a site’s rankings in Google and Yahoo! search results, according to Jonathan Hochman, a search marketer who doubles as a volunteer Wikipedia administrator. Wikipedia keeps a “spammer blacklist” and shares it with several search engines, he says. Domains that appear on the list often lose valuable search engine traffic.
That, in my opinion, is the real harassment and unethical practices by what Carl Hewitt cited as ‘God-King’ – the one who decide whether an article is worthy to be included or not, which apparently, considered unfair and almost random.
Hopefully this won’t happen to Google Knol.
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