Tag Archives : Wikipedia

Facebook article on Wikipedia has become the most viewed English article of the year, according to statistics from Wikimedia’s Toolserver. The next highest viewed page, Wiki, is a surprising one with 29.6 million views – it’s this page that explains how sites such as Wikipedia function – while the third place is taken by the list of deaths in 2012 (25.4 million views). Here’s [...]

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Google has gone the Wikipedia way for its  Street View  by giving web users the ability to edit the locations of businesses that appear in its Street View service. It  will even allow users  to move the tags, many of which are badly positioned. Street View was made available in UK last year  is an add-on to Google Earth and  Google Maps   that allows [...]

Any other news site you’ll read tonight will be talking about how Wolfram is the new ‘Google killer’. We fail to see how this is so. If anything, Wolfram is in competition with Wikipedia. The service works with what they call “computational knowledge engine”, or what we call “providing answers yo questions”. Ask yourself what would you get if you spliced Google [...]