I've just tested two searches in google. "Rick Santorum" had our article on the person in second place and our article on the neologism in third place. For "Santorum" we again had the second and third spots, but the order was reversed. In both cases Google gave prime place to a website about the neologism, that website is not part of wikimedia.
If I was Rick Santorum I'd be asking Google why both queries gave the number one hit they they gave, but that surely is between him and Google. As for Kerry, the first Wikipedia hit is for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_Kerry and there are several other people places and things called Kerry in the first few pages. On that search I didn't spot either a negative page about him, or our article about the controversy, so I don't know which comes higher in Google ranking for Kerry. But for "kerry swift boat" the first two hits are both Wikipedia. In my experience Wikipedia articles often come top or close to it in Google searches, and if I was Rick Santorum I would be hoping that the Wikipedia article on the neologism one day overtook the article that currently comes up top in a "Santorum" or "Rick Santorum" search. WSC On 4 June 2011 09:31, James Farrar <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4 June 2011 04:47, Rob <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Ken Arromdee <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Part of it is a matter of degree. The article on the John Kerry controversy >>> isn't the #2 search for "Kerry" on the Internet. >> >> And whenever people mention this, they conveniently forget to mention >> that the #1 result is Dan Savage's website. > > As may be. > > The Wikipedia article for the word ranks above the article for the > person; ergo, something is wrong. > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
