The Wikimedia Foundation announced on Tuesday, 21st: Google will pay for the search engine to use the most up-to-date and accurate information provided by Google. Wikipedia, via the Wikimedia Enterprise service. The value of the deal was not disclosed.
The search giant will be one of the first customers of the platform, which launched last year, according to the nonprofit. Enterprise works as a kind of premium version of the online encyclopedia, giving you more efficient access to current and large-scale content.
Paid service too offers customers the ability to use more convenient APIs to view content, to meet the specific demands of each subscriber. With the tool, Wikimedia wants to prevent the distribution of false information from unreliable and incomplete sources.
Google uses the foundation’s materials in a variety of ways; for example, to feed information panels displayed next to the top search results when searching for places, people and objects, among other things. To combat disinformation in YouTube videos, information boards also include data from the online encyclopedia.
No change for common user
HE Agreement between Google and the Wikimedia Foundation For the use of the Enterprise service, it will not bring any change to normal users. Boundary, except that the results probably cite more from the encyclopedia as a source of information. You will still be able to access Wikipedia for free in the version updated by the volunteers.
In addition to Google, the organization responsible for the online encyclopedia announced another client for Wikimedia Enterprise. This is the Internet Archive, platform that keeps copies of websites allows you to view deleted or modified pages and old web layouts in a database. According to the entity, no fee will be charged from Internet Archive for using the service.
Source: Tec Mundo
