Yahoo! Corporate Editing Their Competitor's Wikipedia Entries? »

Posted by: sepintx 2 years, 1 month ago

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Checking the IP address for a change made to Zoomr's Wikipeda entry, the IP came back through a reverse DNS directory look up as originating from Yahoo Corporate. The same IP address also edits other Yahoo Wikipedia entries.

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DrHanser
Aug. 5, 2006, 12:40 p.m.
This is a non-event. An IP address traces to a Yahoo. Yahoo has lots of employees, some of which are probably Wikipedia users/editors. Some of whom may have worked for the competition at some point in the past. It's perfectly reasonable to expect that they are simply correcting or changing something.
I'm sure you'd find similar findings from Google's, MSFT's, Intel's, and any other major business's IP addresses.
Why the need for conspiracy theories and sensationalist nonsense?
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sepintx
Aug. 5, 2006, 4:39 p.m.
It's not the first story I've seen that claims a competing interest, business or political, is editing wikipedia entries. Some are valid claims and some are just claims.
As far as conspiracy theories go, that's a nice yahoo-purple colored shirt you are wearing on your icon!