[Wikipedia-l] And now a bit of fun...

Fri Jul 16 18:30:11 UTC 2004

Mathias Schindler wrote:

> "Klaus Holoch" is the spokesman of Brockhaus (English audience: please 
> read "Britannica" with such well thought quotes like
>
> "Brockhaus is providing verified knowledge on which you can rely on at 
> 100 per cent." This is not the case at wikipedia, he claims. Because 
> of this, you can't compare Wikipedia with Brockhaus"
>
> Okay, here's the new part:
>
> google for "Klaus Holoch": 220 hits
> google for "Klaus Holoch" wikipedia: 115
>
> (Last week, there was a news agency-dispatch from dpa about wikipedia 
> and it contained this statement from Holoch, this has resulted in some 
> increase of google result numbers. This is the first time with more 
> than 50% wikipedia-related pages when searching for his name only)

This only proves that bad publicity is often very good as long as the 
name is spelled correctly.  The key words in his statement are "You 
can't compare..."  What could possibly present a greater inspiration to 
making such a comparison.

Ec