A Wikimedia Foundation announced on the terça-feira (21) that o Google will pay to use, in its search engine, the most up-to-date and accurate information made available by Wikipedia, by means of the Wikimedia Enterprise service. The value of the agreement has not been disclosed.

According to the non-profit organization, the search giant will be one of the first two clients of the platform launched last year. O Enterprise functions as a kind of premium version of the online encyclopedia, allowing you to access up-to-date and large-scale content more efficiently.

Or paid service too offers customers the possibility of using more suitable APIs for the display of content, attending to the specific demands of each assinante. As a tool, Wikimedia wanted to avoid the distribution of erroneous information, information from unreliable and incomplete sources.

The online encyclopedia should be cited as a source for “knowledge pain” in the search engine.Source: Shutterstock

Or Google uses the materials of the foundation in various ways, such as for example to supply the information panels displayed next to the main search results, or to search for places, people and objects, among other things. The information panels to combat disinformation in videos on YouTube also trace data obtained from the online encyclopedia.

No changes for the common user

EITHER agreement between Google and Wikimedia Foundation For the use of the Enterprise service, we must not trace any changes to common users, according to or TheVerge, to not be a proven major citation of the encyclopedia as a source of information in the results. You will be able to continue accessing Wikipedia for free, in a version updated by volunteers.

Além do Google, the entity responsible for the online encyclopedia announced another client for the Wikimedia Enteprise. Treat-se do Internet Archive, platform that keeps copies of sites in a database, allowing the visualization of excluded or altered pages, as well as old web layouts. According to the entity, there will be no charge for the Internet Archive for the use of the service.