I’m not saying this is a bad thing, infact it’s probably quite useful as Wikipedia will provide a different type of search result, but the number of locational searches where Wikipedia rank in Google’s top 10 is quite incredible!
Here’s some I found by performing a range of queries for countries, cities, counties and states:
- UK
- USA
- France
- China
- Australia
- Italy
- Paris
- Rome
- Venice
- Amsterdam
- Brisbane
- Sydney
- Melbourne
- South Africa
- Cape Town
- Egypt
- Luxor
- Cairo
- New York
- Los Angeles
- California
- Florida
- Orlando
- Seattle
- Spain
- Madrid
- Barcelona
- London
- Oxford
- Oxfordshire
- Manchester
- Edinburgh
- Dublin
Ok, you get the point - all of these were listed in Google UK’s top 10 and most of these were infact top 3. Wikipedia’s domination in Google has caused some interesting debates in the past, but I’m quite surprised they dominate for so many of these terms. In my opinion travel guides such as Lonely Planet would be just as (and in many cases more) relevant for searches like this, yet they only appear for a handful of these queries.
So can you find any locations which Wikipedia doesn’t rank for?
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Can You Name a Location Where Wikipedia Doesn’t Rank in Google’s Top 10?
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