The relationship betweenGoogle andWikipedia was collaborative inWikipedia's early days, when Google helped reduce thepagerank of widespread, uneditable Wikipedia clones that were ostensiblyad farms.[citation needed] In 2007, Google introducedKnol, a direct competitor for community-driven encyclopedia creation, which was subsequently shut down in 2012. Google later supported Wikimedia with numerous grants, and came to rely on Wikipedia for addressing the problem of misinformation onYouTube, providing verifiable and well-sourced information to those seeking it. Google andWikimedia Enterprise started a partnership in 2021.[1]
In 2007,Google introducedKnol, an encyclopedia withuser-generated content.The New York Times compared Wikipedia to Knol at the time,[2] and it was largely seen as a direct competitor.[3] Knol was largely seen as a failure, and the project was closed and subsequently deleted in 2012.[4]
In 2008, various news sources reported that most of Wikipedia's traffic came from referrals from Google search.[5]
In February 2010, Google gaveUS$2,000,000 as its first grant to theWikimedia Foundation.[6][7] Google founderSergey Brin commented that "Wikipedia is one of the greatest triumphs of the internet".[6]
In May 2012, Google launched a project known as theGoogle Knowledge Graph, which produced instant answer panels alongside traditionalsearch engine results. Later, results from querying the knowledge graph complemented string-based search in producing the ranked list of search results as well. A large amount of the information presented in the knowledge panel infoboxes is retrieved from Wikipedia and theCIA World Factbook.[8]
In January 2019, Google donated $3 million to the Wikimedia Foundation.[9][10][11][12]
In June 2022,Google and theInternet Archive were announced asWikimedia Enterprise's first customers, though only Google will be paying for the service.[13]
In March 2018,YouTube announced that they would be using information from Wikipedia to address the problem ofmisinformation on the website.[14] On videos about certain topics such as theSeptember 11 attacks, theApollo program, the2020 United States presidential election, and theCOVID-19 pandemic, information panels are included below the video.[15][16] These panels are intended to combat misinformation. They contain information sourced directly from Wikipedia, along with other websites such asEncyclopædia Britannica,The World Factbook, theAssociated Press, and theCenters for Disease Control and Prevention.[citation needed]
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