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Gurkenglas comments on Google vs Wikipedia, for-profit vs not-for-profit - Less Wrong Discussion

-3 Post author: Schmoo 08 April 2014 02:42PM

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Comment author: Gurkenglas 09 April 2014 03:53:54AM *  2 points [-]

Don't forget that for-profit companies tend to actually generate profit which means that the largest ones can do R&D for the ratchet of Science, as we are seeing with Google.

Comment author: Schmoo 09 April 2014 08:35:02AM -2 points [-]

True. I think that Wikipedia should generate more revenue via ads, in order to be able to do more stuff.