YouTube surpasses Wikipedia in Google search results

It is known that the Wikipedia encyclopedia usually tops search results on Google, as the American company presents it in its search engine as a source of immediate and quick answers to search queries. However, this seems to be changing, but we cannot interpret it as the beginning of the decline of encyclopedias and content sites. Rather, it can be said that the global search engine is exercising a monopoly. This is what Searchmetrics found, which discovered that after many years of Wikipedia topping the search results, there is a change taking place.

Currently, when you search for many topics and keywords, the search engine may show you at the top of the search results video clips from YouTube, which it owns. On the contrary, the Free World Encyclopedia no longer maintains the lead on many topics and keywords, as it has lost it to either YouTube or even some other content platforms and encyclopedias. For content creators on YouTube, this is good news for them, as more views can be brought in by providing high-quality content on the platform and preparing it for Google search results as well.

In the European Union, Google is facing an old, renewed accusation of preferring its services over competitors' services in search results. It is not unlikely that the institution behind Wikipedia will complain to the European Union Commission and add the Searchmetrics findings to its complaint. How can competitors YouTube and Google services not suffer from the policies of the American giant, while Amazon and other companies in the field of e-commerce suffer from it, as sometimes search results from their sites are preferred over competitors’ pages?

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