How can relevant content beat out spam? Sunir Shah of Socialtext explains why Wikis, and in particular Wikipedia gets such a powerful ranking on Google. He suggests that it is to do with the highly relevant internal linking of the Wikipedia site, combined with a vast number of comparatively low value links. His suggestion is that Wikipedia is a kind of collaboratively-created summary of the web, and hence resistant to spam.

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