Thursday, April 07, 2005

Yahoo supports Wikipedia

Yahoo announces that they will "dedicate hardware and resources to support Wikipedia" and use Wikipedia content in Yahoo Search.

Google made a similar offer a couple months ago. Google uses Wikipedia content indirectly through their Answers.com definitions.

[via Yahoo! Search Blog]

Update: Tara Calishain points out that the higher visibility of Wikipedia will increase the incentive for spammers to start mucking up the Wikipedia content.

1 comment:

Marshall Kirkpatrick said...

For searching wikipedia, see also http://www.wikiwax.com a Google-suggest-like service of Surfwax. It's pretty cool.