Wikipedia receives assistance from Google

February 14, 2005

Google has offered its support to assist online encyclopedia Wikipedia, by providing much needed storage and hosting services.

The deal is still in very early stages. Wikipedia has made it public that Google has not asked for any favors in returns, which includes any ad placement on Wikipedia pages.

Analysts have linked this move to Microsoft�s re-entry into the search engine market with MSN Encarta integrated into the search results.

Google with the power and content of Wikipedia might make a lethal combination to empower the extent; knowledge is available to the end user on the Internet.

But then considering Wikipedia already is open source, Google would not have needed any tech support from the developers of this online encyclopedia.

Google, in recent days, has taken steps to help other open source application developers as well. Mozilla Firefox�s default homepage is now listed on Google�s server, which lessens the traffic on Mozilla�s own servers.

They also hired two major developers of the same browser and clarified that they would continue to work on Firefox primarily.

Source: Search Engine Journal

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