While everyone has noticed Wikipedia dominating Google’s search results, this is a little outrageous. After grabbing 600 random pages from Wikipedia (using their special:random link), I conducted searches in Google for each of the titles of the Wikipedi
This is disruptive disintermediation on a scale that I don’t think any media company has yet begun to imagine. And of course Philipp’s example illustrates that it’s not just big media companies that will be disintermediated — it’s everybody.
It appears from this early analysis that the big winners for this new format are YouTube and Maps, while Image Search and News (which under the older format were occasionally featured top of page) are on the losing end.
