p2pnet news view P2P:- Wikipedia is a news source.

And that’s official.

Gargoyle says so.

Google’s news pages are, to be kind, strange. They’re often to be found tottering along far behind actual events and remaining online for days on end, long after any ‘news’ value has vanished.

But now Google News is including Wikipedia, “among the stable of publications it trawls to create the site,” says the New York Times.

Stable of publications, eh?

“A visit to the Google News home page on Wednesday evening, for example, found that four of the 30 or so articles summarized there had prominent links to Wikipedia articles, including ones covering the global swine flu outbreak and the Iranian election protests,” it says.

But, Wikipedia content on Google is hardly new,” says the story, adding it, “routinely lists Wikipedia articles as the first result for a search. But their use on the news site — especially as newspaper publishers have been complaining that Google was building a competing news site using headlines and snippets of newspaper articles — adds a new wrinkle to the question of how publications can control and charge for their content.”

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June, 2009

New York Times – Google Starts Including Wikipedia on Its News Site, June 21, 2009

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