europeforvisitors - 2:31 pm on Aug 10, 2006 (gmt 0)

ust a small question for europeforvisitors Some of us know your content ,I just wonder if you could have come in this thread and post positively about wikipedia if they where ranking over you for terms like 3 stars or 2 stars or 5 stars widgets in wikilonia.........?

I'd live with it. I certainly wouldn't get huffy about it or get mad at Google and Wikipedia. Where is it written that any of us is entitled to a top ranking for any given search string?

Also, I don't think Wikipedia is nearly as great a threat to the usability of Google's SERPs than computer-generated sites are. Search on a lot of travel topics (including destinations), and you'll find template pages that often have nothing but a keyword-based headlie and an invitation to "Post your review." I've seen the same phenomenon in the tech sector while researching laptops. (A so-called "review" at big-corporate-initials-net will turn out to be nothing more than a few price-comparison listings.)

All things considered, Wikipedia is a useful resource, and the odds are pretty good that users are going to be happy with what they find when they go to a Wikipedia article. That doesn't mean Wikipedia articles should rank #1 for every term, and in fact they don't rank #1 for every term. (In my experience, they're usually a few notches down the first page of the search results--assuming that they're on the first page of results, which isn't always the case.)