Very interesting observation Ravi. Thanks for sharing. On 17-Sep-2014 1:25 pm, "Ravishankar" <ravidre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > When you visit https://www.google.co.in , you can find the option to use > Google services in many Indian languages. > > You can also do a Google account wide change through your account settings > to use your language interface across many Google services like Gmail and > Youtube. > > Many Tamil Wikipedians have noted that Tamil Wikipedia articles are shown > at the top of the search results even when the keyword is in English. > > This is not the case for every search but we guess that the quality of the > article, presence of the keyword in English at the beginning of the article > and accessing your language Wikipedia from an Indian IP address often can > contribute to this scenario. > > When many users show trust in native language articles, the articles will > gain more trust in Google's view and it will start pushing for general > audience too. > > Right now, lack of awareness of native language Wikipedias is an important > issue. > > So, spreading this small trick :) may help to bring you more first time > visitors. > > Ravi > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > >
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