Wikipedia is the largest online encyclopedia on the planet (it also has an offline version) and the most popular reference work on the internet Ranking in the top 20 websites with the highest worldwide traffic. Completely free and without advertising, its maintenance costs a lot of money, which comes mainly from donations from users and companies.

now comes the next the main source of funding for Wikipedia. Google has signed a formal agreement with the Wikimedia Foundation, the organization behind the online encyclopedia, for which it will pay for Wikipedia content that you display in your “Knowledge Bar” and in search results.

Remember that Google was the first paying customer of Wikimedia Enterprise, the commercial business of the Wikimedia Foundation, which was launched last year. In addition, like other companies, it gives money to Wikipedia, but in the form of gifts and grants. Although the terms have not been disclosed, such an agreement goes much further and will help maintain the encyclopedia as we know it so far.

Free, open, and collaborative, if Wikipedia did not exist, it would have to be invented, because despite some criticism, its tens of millions of articles in 300 languages ​​are a good starting point for you to learn or start researching any problem.