“Wikipedia and Google, Sitting in a Tree…”

It was shown that 87 percent of the popular Wikipedia pages are in the top three result positions for Google, whereas this only the case for 72 percent of the pages if the Yahoo or MSN search engines are used. The presented data has helped to explain how search engines, and Google in particular, fuel Wikipedia’s growth and shape what is popular on Wikipedia — Google giveth, Google taketh.

Anselm Spoerri, What is Popular on Wikipedia and Why? First Monday

The implication in this article is that Google has somehow arranged for Wikipedia’s most popular material to show up in the top three results of a relevant search. Law is not one of Wikipedia’s most frequently searched subjects.