Hi Phoebe (and others on the list),
On 13-11-2012 21:47, phoebe ayers wrote:
Are there any solid estimates out there of how many Google [or other]
searches have a Wikipedia article as the first [or second or third...]
hit? Any language breakdowns of this would be super cool as well.
If you look in my "Wikipedia research and tools: Review and comments."
http://www2.imm.dtu.dk/pubdb/views/edoc_download.php/6012/pdf/imm6012.pdf
on page 15 "Popularity" you see a couple of studies using a sample of
pages:
"Seeking health information online: does Wikipedia matter?"
http://jamia.bmj.com/content/16/4/471.long
http://www.conductor.com/blog/2012/03/wikipedia-in-the-serps-appears-on-page-1-for-60-of-informational-34-transactional-queries/
http://www.intelligentpositioning.com/blog/2012/02/wikipedia-page-one-of-google-uk-for-99-of-searches/
The first one reports around 35% health related queries having Wikipedia
on top of of the Google result list.
http://jamia.bmj.com/content/16/4/471/T1.expansion.html
I've seen offhand references to this phenomenon in many papers, but
I'm wondering if someone on this list knows of a particularly good
estimate or reliable information.
Google has become 'bubbled'. You could try DuckDuckGo instead, e.g.,
http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Alzheimer+region%3Anone
See also: http://dontbubble.us/
/Finn
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