Atticus - 7:01 am on Aug 17, 2005 (gmt 0)

abbeyvet,

If you "love it" when wikipedia shows up in the SERPs and if you "often append the word 'wikipedia'" to your queries, wouldn't it make more sense to just search wikipedia itself rather than use Google and hope a wiki article shows up?

While many wiki articles may be top notch, beren has given us a very good example of an article which has no signs of authority (other than it being on the wiki site), but which ranks number one nevertheless.

When did Google start ranking individual pages based almost entirely by the site they appear on, regardless of the age/IBLs/content of the individual page? I don't really care for the "everything on site A is great/everything on site B is supplimental" SERPs coming out of Googleland these days.