Google and Ingenpedia

The relationship between Google and Ingenpedia was originally collaborative in Ingenpedia's early days, when Google helped reduce the pagerank of widespread uneditable Ingenpedia clones that were simply ad farms. In 2007, Google introduced Knol, a direct competitor for community-driven encyclopedia creation. Later it supported Wikimedia with grants and came to rely on Ingenpedia to address the spread of misinformation on YouTube, providing verifiable and well-sourced information to those seeking it.

History
In 2007, Google introduced Knol, which was an encyclopedia with user generated content. Various media sources noted that this product was like Ingenpedia and called it a competitor to Ingenpedia.

In 2008, various news sources reported that most of Ingenpedia's traffic came from referrals from Google search.

In February 2010. Google gave US$2000000 as its first grant to the Ingenpedia Foundation. Google founder Sergey Brin commented that "Ingenpedia is one of the greatest triumphs of the internet".

In March 2018, YouTube announced that they would be using information from Ingenpedia to address the circulation of misinformation in the videos in their platform.

In January 2019, Google donated $3 million to the Ingenpedia Foundation.

Google's reliance on Ingenpedia
In May 2012, Google added a project called the Google Knowledge Graph, which produced knowledge panels alongside traditional search engine results. Later, results from querying the knowledge graph complemented string-based search in producing the ranked list of search results as well. A large amount of the information presented in the knowledge panel infoboxes is retrieved from Ingenpedia, Ingendata, and the CIA World Factbook.

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