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	A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on September 7, 2008. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Google Chrome, a new web browser developed by Google, was launched with a comic by Scott McCloud?
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Hey guys, whats going on with the software infobox? I have no clue how to fix this, how is this happening for such a high activity page? Kyelerw1 (talk) 07:07, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. –CWenger (^ • @) 13:45, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It appears highly improbable that this page is among the most read Wiki pages day after day the past couple months. Is anyone aware of what might be going on? Is bot-filtering failing for some reason only on thisnpage? TheLostPariah (talk) 03:42, 29 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I would love to know. Any theories, anyone? 69.172.138.129 (talk) 17:50, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

maybe a stupid theory, but maybe do all the AI references to wiki ping the chrome page? Fishmax5 (talk) 18:00, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I would guess that perhaps Google has introduced some kind of automated tour for new users (perhaps of new features), in which Wikipedia was seen as a suitable site for demonstration. It would not be all too surprising if they chose their own browser to be the subject of the article they pick. On the other hand, they might of course intentionally choose something completely unrelated for such a feature, such as Google Assistant on Samsung Galaxy phones having used Cleopatra as an example. See: Talk:Cleopatra/Archive_5#WHY IS THIS STILL TRENDING?!?!. BlockArranger (talk) 23:56, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

YesNo ~2025-39092-22 (talk) 06:16, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Very curious as well. Microfloraa (talk) 07:16, 4 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@TheLostPariah as someone who is moderately involved in bot-filtering efforts, I will say that a bot of some kind is a very plausible explanation. It's not that bot filtering would be failing for this page particularly; it's just that bot filtering is difficult and historically hasn't been a top priority, so it has been and remains possible for significant amounts of bot activity to come through.

But in the past couple of years, bot activity has grown significantly, due mainly to scraping content for AI training, so it is now a top priority. If you're curious, here's a summary of a bot filtering improvement we made just a few month ago. You can read a brief summary of the work generally in the current Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan (search for "key result SDS 1.3"). So more improvements will be coming in the next 3-6 months, although they won't necessarily fix all the anomalies like this one because (1) bad bot operators continue to get more sneaky and (2) as @BlockArranger pointed out, it might be a case like Cleopatra instead of a bot. Neil Shah-Quinn (WMF) (talk) 02:27, 6 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Neil Shah-Quinn (WMF) but that wouldn't explain why that particular page is being visited more than any other, right?

the same is happening on German Wikipedia, where the page about long span bridges is consistently in the top 5... no one has ever found an explanation as far as I know (I'm just a user) Schutzesel (talk) 07:21, 27 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Schutzesel Yes, that's true—I was responding to the question "Is bot-filtering failing for some reason only on this page?" (answer: no, but a bot is still a very plausible explanation), but if it is a bot, why a bot would choose to hit a single page over and over again? It's a good question!

Maybe it's not actually a bot, maybe it was randomly picked for some kind of automated test, maybe someone's trying to game the top-read list (unlikely in this case or in the case of long-span bridges, but it has definitely happened). If you can think of a good explanation, I'd be interested to hear it!

But, as you might imagine, questions about specific anomalies like this one tend to be unanswerable (with notable exceptions like the purple daisy and Cleopatra), so we're more focused on coming up with finding concrete signals we can use to tag or, if necessary, block bot traffic generally. Neil Shah-Quinn (WMF) (talk) 19:55, 1 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Neil Shah-Quinn (WMF) thanks for sharing the links to the purple daisy etc. super interesting Schutzesel (talk) 06:23, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

and your explanation about bots... inter as well :-) Schutzesel (talk) 06:27, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

https://github.com/Blaukovitch/GOOGLE_CHROME_Windows_7/

The latest browser versions have been successfully patched (cracked) for several years (since 2023) and run on Windows 7. Google engineers are well aware of this hack, but prefer to remain silent. There is a detailed technical article on how they did it. ChromeUser777 (talk) 20:47, 11 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Someone snook it under stable releases under Extended support versions ~2026-21095-05 (talk) 04:18, 5 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. Someone had vandalised {{Latest stable software release/Google Chrome}}. Mindmatrix 12:55, 5 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]