koan - 8:40 pm on Mar 6, 2007 (gmt 0)

but Wikipedia is pure rubbish

Now that kind of generalization makes you look like just a hater or someone jealous, personally I find it's the best way to know about something if you just need a glimpse or as a starting point for good research. As a rule of thumb, no place on the internet should actually be trusted with your life. Their external links section are also valuable to check the trusted sites on a topic.

I guess a lot of people are losing money because wikipedia replaced them in the first results. But you know what? One of the reason it's popular is the fact that you will never land on a page full of ads and affiliate links, or a horribly designed menu system. Just clean content like the web in its first years.