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2011 social media statistics show huge growth
Welcome to another social media statistics blog post. It’s no secret that ‘social media’ is growing and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. We won’t bore you too much with that. There are a million and one places where you can find social media stats, but what use are statistics alone? It’s not until they’re put in to some perspective that they can truly be appreciated. Leading…
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The state of Wikipedia
Wikipedia is one of the most important sites on the internet today, and for millions has become the most trusted reference site available on the web. Over 400 million people visit the site every month to gain knowledge about anything and everything. Today, the English Wikipedia now stands at more than 3.5 million articles (up from roughly 500,000 in March 2005), and more than 17 million across all languages. More…
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Google is ‘white bread for the mind’
As the morning news today claimed that most students in the UK are guilty of plagiarism and copy and paste huge chunks of material found on the internet, a UK professor has criticised the effect that Google is having on students, calling the search engine ‘white bread for the mind’ Tara Brabazon of the University of Brighton believes that the easy access to information that Google offers students is taking away their critical abilities….
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Open-source search engine launches
Wikia Search, the new open-source search engine from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, launched yesterday in alpha. According to Wales though, users shouldn’t be expecting too much from the site just yet, and the actual search results ‘suck’ at the moment. He predicts that it may take a year or two before it can hope to compete with Google. Like Jason Calacanis’ Mahalo, Wikia Search aims to use human editors to…
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Google develops online encyclopedia
Search engine giant Google is taking on Wikipedia with the development of a user-generated online encyclopedia. Dubbed the ‘knol’ project after what Google calls a unit of knowledge, the new information source will encourage experts on a particular subject to write an authoritative article about it. According to Udi Manber, Google’s VP of Engineering: “A knol on a particular topic is meant to be the first thing someone who searches…
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