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Re:What is Google's real market share in the US? by jellicle on Saturday August 13, 2011 @12:51PM (#2881353)
This is basically a measure of which search engine promotes Wikipedia links more heavily in their algorithm, not a measure of the search engine's market share....
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Re:What is Google's real market share in the US? by ashishgandhi on Saturday August 13, 2011 @02:12PM (#2881558)
If I'm looking for an article on something and Google thinks Wikipedia is one of the solutions it displays it amongst OTHER results. I click on it because I tend to like their articles.

I say the stat is what the stat it says it is. Wikipedia visitors tend to use Google more than other search engines to get there. I personally Google something with "wiki" thrown in as a keyword at the end so I can get to the correct Wikipedia article.

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