Re: [Foundation-l] Left on the Table, vs. Google's serving portion

2010-11-08 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Thank you, Michael, for your critical note on the assertations concerning the huge sums of money. I didn't stand still at the fact that most of our Wikipedia pages have very low click rates. - Recently I read that 4% of our pages cause 50% of our traffic. The idea of Liam is interesting that we co

Re: [Foundation-l] Left on the Table, vs. Google's serving portion

2010-11-07 Thread Michael Snow
On 11/7/2010 4:09 PM, geni wrote: > As for tweak algorithmic factors firstly it's already happened at > least once (there was a noticeable drop in wikipedia's Google SERPS > positions a few years back). Secondly since both bing and yahoo rank > wikipedia highly (in fact while I haven't checked rec

Re: [Foundation-l] Left on the Table, vs. Google's serving portion

2010-11-07 Thread geni
On 6 November 2010 01:20, Seth Finkelstein wrote: >        Nobody knows, because the unknown factor in such calculations > is whether Google would continue to bless Wikipedia so heavily if it > started running ads. You cannot assume that the current dominance in > search ranking would be maintaine

Re: [Foundation-l] Left on the Table, vs. Google's serving portion

2010-11-05 Thread Seth Finkelstein
> Fred Bauder > How many billions in potential advertising revenue do we leave on > the table each year? Nobody knows, because the unknown factor in such calculations is whether Google would continue to bless Wikipedia so heavily if it started running ads. You cannot assume that the curre