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I think Wikipedia's market-cap would be larger than Facebook's if it was a for-profit corporation

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Naomi K
Mar 30, 2011
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Thinking about Yahoo Answers last night, and the various other Yahoo-Answers-esque startup dotcoms that people pointed me to, I thought, “You know what? Wikipedia is really weird.”

It is really weird that Wikipedia exists.

It is a site that gets hundreds of millions of hits, hosts mostly text (ergo low bandwidth costs), and has no content-creation costs. …

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