News: reuters say music fans prefer wikipedia to myspace

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22-03-2008:
According to Reuters music fans prefer Wikipedia to MySpace. Data provided to Billboard from Yahoo, the second-most popular search engine on the Web after Google, those searching for artist information are selecting the Wikipedia entry link over artists' MySpace pages by a factor of more than 2-to-1. The Wikipedia entries are also more popular than artists' Web sites. Yet when compared with the number of artist profiles on MySpace, Wikipedia entries are noticeably fewer. MySpace claims 3 million artist profiles. Wikipedia does not have an exact count of artist entries, but estimates that it's in the "tens of thousands,".

It is interesting and indicates that the factual nature of wikipedia's records is preferred by the intelligent surfer compared to the promotional nature or artists web sites and myspace accounts. It could also be the connective links between artists and bands makes for a more intelligent user experience. Does this mean you need to have a wikipedia record as well? Read the full article

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