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GuruNet's Answers.com versus Wikipedia: as long as Answers.com uses Wikipedia, I don't see how Wikipedia alone can provide better content than Wikipedia + 100 or more other data sources.

Wikipedia's Symbiotic Relationship With Search - MediaPost Publications - 05/19/2005 (fred/sokag-+->bugmenot): All of Wikipedia's content is open and freely available to anyone under its GNU Free Documentation License.

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John Battelle's Searchblog -thoughts on the intersection of search, media, technology, and more. (author of forthcoming book on google - excerpt posted today - more anecdotal (creative non-fiction) than I like?)

rosewater: ...Much of the low hanging fruit for a search company like Google, involves doing kinda creepy things (like pay-for-placement, selling data mined from users, etc) . In order to last and avoid the fate of their predecessors, they have to walk a fine line -- "Do no evil" seems like an excellent guide