yes, but google does not share its log files!
Google published a Nature paper out of it. AFAIK the data (google queries) on which that research is based is kept well secret. Therefore it is not possible to validate what they did. Science cannot be based on secret data, and the journal Nature in this case published an advertising ("how awesome is google"), not a scientific paper ("these are the data, this is our method, check out our conclusions").
As they athors here say, approaches from closed sources like google limit a lot the efficiency of this kind of approach. So they choose a free software thinking: wikipedia because the data is public + their software is free software. Good work.
"Text processing has made it possible to right-justify any idea, even one which cannot be justified on any other grounds." -- J. Finnegan, USC.