SAN FRANCISCO, California: Google has agreed to pay for ramped-up Wikipedia services, part of a growing trend for the US technology giant to strike commercial deals with other web companies.

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.

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