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Thursday, August 23, 2007

WikiScanner

 

WikiScanner is a concept that lets you see who edits the entries on WikiPedia.

Michael Linehan of Marketing-Alchemy.com has posted this in the LED Digest.

It's fun to play with WikiScanner, and you can find this search engine here: http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr

That's the basic. Now for some points I have not verified.
Supposedly, among many revelations, some of the more interesting (and funny) ones are:

MSN Search is "a major competitor to Google". That's what MSN added to their page

Microsoft edits Apple entries, adding more negative comments about its rival

In the 9/11 Wikipedia article, the NRA added that "Iraq was involved in 9/11"

Exxon Mobil edits spillages and eco-system destruction from oil spillages article

FBI edits Guantanamo Bay, removing numerous pictures

Dell Computers deletes negative comments on customer services and removes a passage how the company outsources work to third world countries

Microsoft tried to cover up the XBOX 360 failure rate

DieBold, the company that controversially supplied computerised polling stations in the US elections, removes numerous paragraphs with negative comments

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