Search engines love Wikipedia

Wikipedia, which prides itself in being 'anyone-can-edit', almost always shows up at the top of the search results of any good search engine. Here is my take on why this happens
It's like a cycle of events. When Wikipedia started off, people simply started creating numerous articles. The number of such scholars kept increasing, and number of hits to the website increased day by day. However sophisticated the search algorithms ( read Google PageRank ) of the various search engines are, it always depends on hits to the site. Now, Wikipedia is the 7th most visited site in the world. So, it naturally shows up at the top of search engines, even though it ranks low, on my scale at least, as the most trustworthy. And, people keep searching for stuff on Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc, and Wikipedia keeps popping up, which leads to one more hit from the user. And, the cycle continues....Anyway, personally I don't like Wikipedia. If comedian/TV anchor Stephen Colbert is editing every other article ( http://bit.ly/160zYE ), I would just stay away from Wikipedia. I remember that, about a year ago, I searched for some info about our dear, former Indian Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda on the website. A laugh-out-loud moment soon followed.... In the introduction it said that "Him and his son Kumaraswamy are scars on the face of Karnataka." How true!
One more thing, Conan O'Brien on The Tonight Show said that Wikipedia is being written as a book. The funny thing is, he mentioned that he got this information from Wikipedia itself! But here is the catch: the database of the site has almost 3 million English articles. If all that is printed, it would be equivalent to 956 volumes of Ecyclopedia Britannica, with 500 pages each. I'm giving a link to the same website itself! ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_in_volumes ). Here is a picture of a publication which is 0.01% of the Wikipedia encyclopedia, converted by a UK student:

So, please guys, save paper and don't print your wrong information from the site, just read them off your screen!