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wikipedia as a search engine?

Subject:wikipedia as a search engine?
Posted by:bob_jenki..@burtleburtle.net
Date:16 Sep 2006 10:08:23

My site (with its admittedly strange access patterns) says 47.54%
direct request, 11.45% Google, at least 1.67% cumulative from
Wikipedia, 0.69% Yahoo, 0.26% MSN, 0.10% Ask, and 0.09% for the first
non-search-or-wikipedia referrer.

There are several mysteries here -- the implausible number of direct
requests (from spiders?) the huge gap between Google and everything
else, and the mismatch between my stats and ComScore's numbers (43.7%
Google, 28.8% Yahoo, 12.8% MSN, 5.9% AOL, 5.4% Ask).

But the thing I'm curious about right now is my stats saying that
Wikipedia handily beats every search engine other than Google.  Is
Wikipedia really the #2 search engine nowadays?

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