Wikipedia statistics/Referrers

A snapshot of who is sending traffic to Wikipedia. This is for half a day, August 17, 2001:

    636 google.com
    269 google.yahoo.com
    135 bomis.com
     21 yahoo.com
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      1 www.biography.com

This is what people are searching on at Google or Yahoo that brings them to Wikipedia. There's a strong probability that a lot of these were double-counted.

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