What if Wikipedia Added Noindex tags?

January 29, 2007
Filed Under Google (GOOG), Reputation Management |

The Wikipedia controversy keeps raging. David Ogletree has an thought provoking post calling for Google to remove Wikipedia from it’s index.

It might be interesting to think about it from the other direction. What if Wikipedia added noindex tags? With the amount of traffic it gets now, does Wikipedia need to be indexed in Google to survive? Does Google need it more as an index the way it uses DMOZ? If Wikipedia added noindex and Google ignored it, would that be evil?

So many interesting and controversial things to be worked out in the next few years. I wonder what Matt Cutts is thinking on this issue.

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