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[WebProNews - Google] Google Gives $2 Million To Wikimedia Foundation | WebProNews: Courtesy of Google, the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation has received a significant gift. Google donated $2 million to the organization, which is responsible for keeping Wikipedia up and running.

[CdrInfo.com Just Published News] Google Donates $2 million to Wikipedia: Most recently, Google and the Wikimedia Foundation have partnered to support translation of Wikipedia content into key languages with relatively small Wikipedia editions. Google's Translation Toolkit supports direct online translation of Wikipedia articles, and has been used by Google in Wikipedia translation pilot projects with speakers of Arabic, Hindi, and Swahili.

[Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews] Wikimedia Foundation Receives $2 Million Grant From Google: stated Google co-founder Sergey Brin. “This vast repository of community-generated content is an invaluable resource to anyone who is online.”  The Wikimedia Foundation operates several websites including Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikinews, Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource.

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[Vator.tv news stories and report] VatorNews - Wikimedia Foundation receives $2M from Google: The Wikimedia Foundation recently ran a large-scale campaign across Wikipedia and its other sites, calling to users to donate whatever they could, in an effort to keep sites like Wikipedia free for users, free from advertising, and free from influences that could jeopardize the sites' attempt to maintain neutrality.

[DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich] Google donates $2 Million to Wikimedia Foundation | DLD - Digital ...: Google has donated an incredible amount of $2 million to Wikimedia Foundation, the group behind the widely used Wikipedia reference site, to support "one of the greatest triumphs of the Internet.", as Google co-founder Sergey Brin said in a statement. He further said that this vast repository of community-generated content is an invaluable resource to anyone who is online.

[D' Technology Weblog] Google donated $2 Million to Wikimedia Foundation, Jimmy Wales says: Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia founder on Twitter says that Google has donated $2 million to the Wikimedia Foundation. The official statement is supposedly be made on Wednesday.

[Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog] Google Donates $2 million to Wikipedia Foundation: WASHINGTON - Tech giants Microsoft and Yahoo reached a long-awaited partnership Wednesday in a bid to challenge Google, which holds a 65 percent market share in online search. Under a 10-year deal, websites from both companies would use Microsoft's Bing search engine, which could now integrate Yahoo's considerable trove of search technology.

[TechKive] TechKive » Blog Archive » Google Donates $2 Million To Wikimedia ...: According to a Tweet just sent from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales , Google has donated $2 million to the Wikimedia Foundation. Wales says the official announcement will be made tomorrow.

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[TechSheep] TechSheep » Blog Archive » Google Donates $2 Million To Wikimedia ...: Google Donates $2 Million To Wikimedia Foundation ”” According to a Tweet just sent from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, Google has donated $2 million to the Wikimedia Foundation. Wales says the official announcement will be made tomorrow .

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