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Google gives Wikipedia $2 million
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Thu Feb 18 2010, 10:23
SEARCH OUTFIT Google has given Wikipedia more than $2 million.
The donation announced Wednesday matches the largest grant made so far to the Wikimedia Foundation. Ebay founder Pierre Omidyar also donated $2 million to Wikimedia six months ago through one of his investment arms.
The donations mean that Wackypedia has raised $10.6 million for its fiscal year ending in June, which is 20 per cent more than last year.
The cash will be used to keep the web-based volunteer written encyclopedia advertising free. µ
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There is not irony. Searching for Wikipedia articles is one of most common purposes what Google is used for. The biggest asset for Google is huge ammounts of available information it can index. On cotrary, the biggest threat to Google are ghettos and iron curtains which lock information and/or require huge payments for indexing it. See Twitter, Facebook, Associated Press and big media companies. Paying $2 mln to Wikipedia are just pennies.
Am i the only one that sees the irony in this donation? Google, the worlds largest advertising company has just donated $2million to wackypedia allowing it to remain free of advertisements.
It says either A) google really didnt think about that aspect. B) didnt give a shit. or C) doesnt want to subject itself to dealing with all of the bullshit that comes with doing business with the wackopedians.
My guess is C, Eric, Larry and Surgey probably held a meeting over the subject and decided that with the cost per ounce of sanity these days it would be far cheaper to just donate the remaining balance needed to keep the wackopedia afloat and more importantly independent for one more year!...
Wiki is "The best of the web" Glad to see it gets treated with respect and kindness by both those big money companies.
Damn you Google!
Wikipedia is bad enough as it is! Get off your backside and turn Knol into a proper Googlepedia to compete against this evil Wiki!
I'll admit, Wiki has a use for contemporary net memes, since it is more able to keep up with the times, but a properly managed Googlepedia could do that and more.