Wikipedia Breaks Into U.S. Top 10 Sites
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The popular Wikipedia online encyclopedia cracked the top ten list of most popular Web sites in the U.S. for the first time in January.
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The "free encyclopedia that anyone can edit" goes online. Doing research becomes easier but community editing means the information may be less credible.
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Search headlines from around the web, December 28, 2004.
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Merriam-Webster, the US dictionary publisher, says the word &quot;Blog&quot; is the number one word of 2004 among its list of the top 10 words looked up on their dictionary Web sites.
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10 years ago Craig Newmark started Craigslist for a few friends. Now the site is one of the Web's top portals.
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A UC Santa Cruz prof designs a tool to give Wikipedia users a better idea of how trustworthy entries are. The software flags questionable lines by turning the text orange -- the more it's been tinkered with, the deeper the orange. This, on the heels of the Wikipedia tracker that reveals who has edited the entries.
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University students are working on the Wikipedia online encyclopedia as part of their degree course.
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Chinese Wikipedia users say the Web site highlights the resilience of an information control system whose reach goes beyond simple censorship.
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Increasingly popular social-networking sites such as MySpace, YouTube, and Facebook account for huge volumes of DNS queries and bandwidth consumption.
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Shi Zhao slides the computer mouse,  making rapid-fire clicks and in the space of a minute or so  finds about a dozen minor errors to be tweaked on Wikipedia,  the popular online encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
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Wikimedia Foundation Inc.'s popular Wikipedia online encyclopedia cracked the top ten list of most popular Web sites in the U.S. for the first time in January, according to comScore Networks Inc.
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By NICK WEBSTER IT is the internet encyclopedia that grows by 30 million words a day, a vast pool of knowledge that is expanding so fast it is impossible to keep up.
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In just a few years, Wikipedia has become the most influential encyclopedia in the world
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Ask.com is the newest search engine to dish up new features.
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Wikipedia published its 2-millionth article in the English language version of the anyone-can-edit encyclopedia, a symbolic milestone for the world's largest user-generated Web publishing site.