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A Deeper Investigation of the Importance of Wikipedia Links to the Success of Search Engines

@article{Vincent2020ADI,
  title={A Deeper Investigation of the Importance of Wikipedia Links to the Success of Search Engines},
  author={Nicholas Vincent and Brent J. Hecht},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2020},
  volume={abs/2004.10265}
}
A growing body of work has highlighted the important role that Wikipedia's volunteer-created content plays in helping search engines achieve their core goal of addressing the information needs of millions of people. In this paper, we report the results of an investigation into the incidence of Wikipedia links in search engine results pages (SERPs). Our results extend prior work by considering three U.S. search engines, simulating both mobile and desktop devices, and using a spatial analysis… 
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