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[TopNews United States] Google Donates $2m to Wikimedia | TopNews United States: Google co-founder Sergey Brin said, “Wikipedia is one of the greatest triumphs of the Internet…this vast repository of community-generated content is an invaluable resource to anyone who is online".

[Geek.com] Google donates $2 million to Wikimedia Foundation | Geek.com: Wikimedia Foundation announced today that Google has donated $2 million to help continue the development of Wikipedia and other projects.  The funds are intended to support Wikipedia’s bandwidth costs and “multimedia needs”.

[IT PRO - Today] Google donates $2 million to Wikimedia | IT PRO: News of the philanthropic gesture surfaced not from Google itself, but from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, who announced the donation in a tweet earlier this week. “Google has donated $2 million to the Wikimedia Foundation!

[Buzzing News] Buzzing News » Blog Archive » Google Donates $2m to Wikimedia ...: Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, proclaimed that Google Inc. has donated an amount of $2m to the Wikimedia Foundation, on Tuesday.

[TECH.BLORGE.com] Google donates $2 million to Wikimedia parent group - TECH.BLORGE.com: Based on past history, it’s extremely hard to see the Wikimedia foundation agreeing to cede any form of editorial control or become involved in advertising partnerships. That most likely means this is purely a case of Google recognizing that a strong Wikipedia improves the overall internet experience, which has a knock-on benefit for Google’s bottom line.

[TopINews Blog] Google donates to support Wikimedia Foundation || TopINews Blog: Google co-found Sergey Brin said, “Wikipedia is one of the greatest triumphs of the internet. This vast repository of community-generated content is an invaluable resource to anyone who is online.”

[Tech Support Forums - TechIMO.com] Google Donates $2M to Wikimedia Foundation - Tech Support Forums ...: Google's move to help monetarily support the Wikimedia Foundation - the organization behind Wikipedia - is interesting considering Google's efforts to develop Knol, its own community-based reference resource.

[Free Software and Open Source Software News - Published news] Google Donates $2 Million to Wikimedia: The search colossus is helping to fund the group that operates Wikipedia, founder Jimmy Wales says. Also: 958 million Wiki edits and counting.

[nerdHEROIN.com] Google Donates $2 Million To the Wikimedia Foundation | nerdHEROIN.com: k33l0r writes "Yesterday, the Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipedia and other projects, announced that it has received a $2 million donation from Google. This is the first time that Google has supported Wikipedia, and it has many wondering why.

[ResourceShelf] A Conversation (Audio) with Jimmy Wales & Google's Donation to ...: This is the Wikimedia Foundation’s first grant from Google. The funds will support core operational costs of the Wikimedia Foundation, including investments in technical infrastructure to support rapidly-increasing global traffic and capacity demands.

[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.

[Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog] Google Donates $2 million to Wikipedia Foundation: SAN FRANCISCO - Social networking website Facebook continues its rapid rise and has already become the fourth most trafficked website in the world, technology blog TechCrunch has reported. In June this year, Facebook attracted a total of 340 million unique visitors globally, trailing only Google, Microsoft and Yahoo sites, the report said, citing latest results from market research firm comScore.

[Hot Twitter conversations] Google Donates $2 Million To Wikimedia Foundation - - Twitter ...: In addition to TechCrunch followers, it has been readen by 22,666 second-level followers (retweeters followers).

[WATBlog.com - Web, Advertising and Technology Blog in India] Google's Support For Wikipedia! Donates $2 Million - Is Google ...: Or is Google looking forward to talk about possibilities of acquiring Wikipedia? We can rule out the possibility of Google acquiring Wikipedia as it’s founder.

[Google Blogoscoped] Google Gives $2 Million to Wikimedia: Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales says that Google has donated $2 million to the Wikimedia Foundation, TechCrunch reports (can't connect to the source, Twitter, at the moment). The official statement is supposedly be made today, Wednesday.

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