Wikipedia

Here's an interesting blog post about Wikipedia and information on the web. Basically the study says that Google searches for fairly pedestrian topics (i.e. giraffes, Ford, Brad Pitt, etc) often perch the Wikipedia entry on the topic as the top match and always include Wikipedia in the top ten. The author continues by observing that for a medium such as the internet that values heterogeneity and breadth of information, it's certainly interesting that much of what people get from Google is from a single source. Food for thought.