Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Talks Google
Wikipedia founder and Wikimedia Foundation board member Jimmy Wales spoke with Bloomberg Television‘s Betty Liu Wednesday morning, with their conversation touching on Wikia, Wales’ new online company, as well as Wikipedia’s relationship with Google.
On Google and the $2 million grant The Wikimedia Foundation received from the search-engine giant, Wales told Liu:
We’ve always had a good relationship with Google. It’s an unrestricted grant, so I think they just wanted to give something back. Google benefits a lot from Wikipedia’s existence.
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