Who pays for Wikipedia's advertising on Google and other search engines?

Question

As Wikipedia is a nonprofit site, and it's employees are all volunteers, where does it get the money, or in fact, does it pay to advertise on Google.com?

Answer 1

Google made changes in their search algorithms to make top search results from wikipedia article just because the encyclopedia has quality articles for just about any topic under the sun. Google did this voluntarily, so it can return quality search results. Wikipedia did not pay Google Inc. Wikipedia gets all of their money from donations. Check this page out: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Dona...  

Answer 2

The wikimedia foundation makes their revenue from donations.

Answer 3

Google search retrieves and ranks urls of Wikipedia articles. They do not charge for that. Indeed that is why people use it, because they find good webpages to go to to get information. Wikipedia has never, to my knowledge advertised anywhere, and certainly not on Google.

Answer 4

As far as I know, Wikipedia runs no ads. Are you talking about how if you search "wikipedia," you get offered a search bar right in your results page? THat's Google's doing, not Wikipedia's, and It's done for many common Web pages that work as indexes to knowledge.