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Answers.com Links Up with Wikipedia

By Ed Oswald, BetaNews

October 21, 2005, 1:57 PM

Wikimedia announced on Thursday that it had reached a deal with Answers.com to offer users answers to queries from content included in the Wikipedia. Called "1-Click Answers, Wikpedia Edition," the site is expected to go live in early 2006, after a 60-day trial period in beta. The service will be promoted on the "tools" section of the Wikipedia website.

"We are pleased to partner with Answers.com, encouraging software that improves access to Wikipedia," said Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia founder and Wikimedia Foundation President. "Bob Rosenschein and his team have created an innovative technology which helps users click on any word in any application to look it up in Wikipedia. We expect that our users will appreciate the extra convenience."

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By bimzalazim

posted Nov 17, 2006 - 3:34 PM

Wikipedia is a tool of the crooked companies to use Wikipedia to promote themselves. Wikipedia has built up an image as an open encyclopedia that the crooked companies use to get their names associated in the search engine listings. For example the listings in search Engines call Zedo as trojan horses and viruses and are listed under adwares and under Powered by Zedo viruses Wikipedia continues to call Zedo as ad serving companies. These companies pay the Wikipedia adminstrators millions of dollars to edit under their names.

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