Wikipedia receives Google’s offer for assistance
February 12th, 2005 Leave a comment Visited 67 times, 4 so far today
Wikipedia receives Google’s offer for assistance
Anyone who has tried finding information on the net would have landed on the incredible Wikipedia sooner than later. The open source free for all encyclopedia has massive user base and an excellent fan support. People like to contribute content to it as much as they like to use the content from it.
The sad part is that the non-profit site is usually short on the much-needed storage and hosting services. However, the latest news in might bring some relief to the project. Search Engine giant Google has offered its support to assist online encyclopedia Wikipedia, by providing much needed storage and hosting services.
The deal is still in very early stages. Wikipedia has made it public that Google has not asked for any favors in returns, which includes any ad placement on Wikipedia pages. Analysts have linked this move to Microsoft’s re-entry into the search engine market with MSN Encarta integrated into the search results.
Google with the power and content of Wikipedia might make a lethal combination to empower the extent; knowledge is available to the end user on the Internet. But then considering Wikipedia already is open source, Google would not have needed any tech support from the developers of this online encyclopedia!
Google in the recent days has taken steps to help other open source application developers as well. Mozilla Firefox’s default homepage is now listed on Google’s server, which lessens the traffic on Mozilla’s own servers. They also hired two major developers of the same browser and clarified that they would continue to work on Firefox primarily.
Is this the sign of Google’s generosity… looks like it!
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February 15th, 2005 at 6:26 pm
its not that im against google doin good things but if microsoft had done the same thing then u wuld hav definitely said that hold on, microsoft is upto somethin again.
i hate microshit too :-P , but just a thought , why why .. we favour google so much :)
February 19th, 2005 at 12:58 pm
The reason why we always think Micro$oft is up to something fishy and sly is becase they have built a reputation of doing so. Google, for the most part, has been a good company. Things might change if they were able to monopolize search; then they would be no different then Microsoft.
February 21st, 2005 at 10:10 pm
Darn I hate it when companies do nice things. Of course Google has a stake in this, but hosting Wikipedia is just a nice thing to do. A prior post mentions the motivations of Microsoft vs Google, and I think this shows exactly that. Thank you, Google. btw, I’m on this site using Firefox. I love it.