<p>Google has agreed to pay Wikipedia for content displayed by its search engine, mirroring deals the US tech giant has struck with news outlets in Europe.</p>.<p>The Wikimedia Foundation, the charity that oversees the online encyclopedia, said Google was the first paying customer for its commercial venture Wikimedia Enterprise, which it launched last year.</p>.<p>The Internet Archive, a non-profit that runs a site called the Wayback Machine that saves snapshots of websites and is used to fix Wikipedia links, will be offered the commercial services for free.</p>.<p>"We're thrilled to be working with them both as our longtime partners," said Wikimedia's Lane Becker in a statement on Tuesday.</p>.<p>Wikipedia, one of the world's most visited websites, is free to use, updated by volunteers and relies on donations to keep afloat.</p>.<p>The new commercial arm will not change that arrangement for individual users, the foundation said.</p>.<p>Google uses material from the site for its "knowledge panel" -- a sidebar that accompanies the main search results.</p>.<p>The source of the information is not always shown, a practice that had sparked complaints from Wikimedia.</p>.<p>Google has previously given money to Wikipedia through donations and grants.</p>.<p>"We have long supported the Wikimedia Foundation in pursuit of our shared goals of expanding knowledge and information access for people everywhere," said Google's Tim Palmer.</p>.<p>The foundation's statement did not reveal the value of the Google contract.</p>.<p>French regulators and Google on Tuesday ended a years-long dispute by agreeing a framework for the US firm to pay news outlets for content.</p>.<p>Google said it had already made deals with hundreds of news outlets across Europe, Agence France-Presse among them.</p>
<p>Google has agreed to pay Wikipedia for content displayed by its search engine, mirroring deals the US tech giant has struck with news outlets in Europe.</p>.<p>The Wikimedia Foundation, the charity that oversees the online encyclopedia, said Google was the first paying customer for its commercial venture Wikimedia Enterprise, which it launched last year.</p>.<p>The Internet Archive, a non-profit that runs a site called the Wayback Machine that saves snapshots of websites and is used to fix Wikipedia links, will be offered the commercial services for free.</p>.<p>"We're thrilled to be working with them both as our longtime partners," said Wikimedia's Lane Becker in a statement on Tuesday.</p>.<p>Wikipedia, one of the world's most visited websites, is free to use, updated by volunteers and relies on donations to keep afloat.</p>.<p>The new commercial arm will not change that arrangement for individual users, the foundation said.</p>.<p>Google uses material from the site for its "knowledge panel" -- a sidebar that accompanies the main search results.</p>.<p>The source of the information is not always shown, a practice that had sparked complaints from Wikimedia.</p>.<p>Google has previously given money to Wikipedia through donations and grants.</p>.<p>"We have long supported the Wikimedia Foundation in pursuit of our shared goals of expanding knowledge and information access for people everywhere," said Google's Tim Palmer.</p>.<p>The foundation's statement did not reveal the value of the Google contract.</p>.<p>French regulators and Google on Tuesday ended a years-long dispute by agreeing a framework for the US firm to pay news outlets for content.</p>.<p>Google said it had already made deals with hundreds of news outlets across Europe, Agence France-Presse among them.</p>