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::I am tickled pink that you guys are curious about this Google phenomenon, as am I.  It is rather offensive that the "original source" would be deprecated by Google in favor of the "borrowing site", no matter how much of a gorilla it is in PageRank.  But, them's the breaks, I'm afraid.  It all comes down to: ''In order to show you the most relevant results''.  Google has determined that popularity equals relevance, not originality nor quality.  The only real solution to prevent this offense is to copyright your work here (in a Directory network, since the Main Space is governed by GFDL) and see to it that it doesn't find its way to Wikipedia.
 
::I am tickled pink that you guys are curious about this Google phenomenon, as am I.  It is rather offensive that the "original source" would be deprecated by Google in favor of the "borrowing site", no matter how much of a gorilla it is in PageRank.  But, them's the breaks, I'm afraid.  It all comes down to: ''In order to show you the most relevant results''.  Google has determined that popularity equals relevance, not originality nor quality.  The only real solution to prevent this offense is to copyright your work here (in a Directory network, since the Main Space is governed by GFDL) and see to it that it doesn't find its way to Wikipedia.
 
::If you don't mind, I'd like to toy around a little with these articles you've mentioned, to pump in a few semantic tags, so that maybe -- '''maybe''' -- it might out-compete Wikipedia once again.  I doubt it, but it would be an achievement worthy of note. -- [[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 09:36, 25 January 2009 (PST)
 
::If you don't mind, I'd like to toy around a little with these articles you've mentioned, to pump in a few semantic tags, so that maybe -- '''maybe''' -- it might out-compete Wikipedia once again.  I doubt it, but it would be an achievement worthy of note. -- [[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 09:36, 25 January 2009 (PST)
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::: Yay that's the spirit. [[User:Ockham|Ockham]] 11:38, 25 January 2009 (PST)
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