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Title: Wikipedia is a multilingual, Webbased, freecontent encyclopedia project


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  • Wikipedia is a multilingual, Web-based,
    free-content encyclopedia project
  • It can be found at http//en.wikipedia.org/
  • It is maintained and written by volunteers i,e
    anyone with access to it can make an input to it

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Comparison of wikipedia and popular search
engines using search results for usb
  • Search results for USB.
  • Wikipedia
  • When a search for USB was done a definition,
    illustrations and pictures were given. The
    subject was generously covered, followed by a
    list other topics related to the subject. Finally
    a short list of external links containing similar
    information was given. There were no adverts
    purporting to have something to do with the
    search item. The presentation was quite
    professional and well suited to students.

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  • Found at http//www.msn.com/
  • A long list (40 million) of sites containing the
    subject material was displayed but no definitions
    were given. However the Wikipedia website
    appeared in the results list. But there were
    adverts of not necessarily in good faith and most
    of them were quite misleading.

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  • Found at www.google.com
  • A long list (4 million) of sites containing the
    subject material was displayed but no definitions
    were given. More or less the same thing with MSN.

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conclusion
  • While wikipedia is quite good it is weighted down
    by fact that anyone can write anything in it.
  • Search engines can be misleading sometimes since
    they are commercial entities.
  • Its best to use more than one source for
    searches and definitions
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