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By: My Get Things Done List » Blog Archive » Personally, I welcome our Knol overlords. [HD BizBlog- The Blog: Productivity in Context]

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:28:29 +0000

[...] Personally, I am not sure how much people will like the idea of web pages that anyone can edit. It’s one thing for wikipedia, which is supposed to be an information resource, it’s quite another for your homepage. Inevitably these pages are going to get punked, as people go in and add links to their own blogs and websites. Or simply vandalized, the way that Wikipedia is nearly every day (check out these edits compiled by Wired). Over at TechCrunch there is a lively disussion, featuring a great deal of cynicism mixed with trepidation about what is coming next, in the Comments to this post. [...]

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Mon, 01 Jun 2009 03:55:20 +0000

[...] with this we have Duncan Riley at TechCrunch calling this shot into the port bows of Wikipedia potentially space changing: When it comes to [...]

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New Dating Sites — Mon, 04 May 2009 22:37:41 +0000

At some point, you have to concede that the predominant player in the reference article niche is Wikipedia, and that it will be difficult, even for a behemoth like Google, to overcome the inertia in order to gather a community of zealous editors that have grown organically within the Wikipedia ecosystem.

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Google's Paradigm Shift: Monetizing the Second Click | Marketing Ninja — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 06:50:03 +0000

[...] all came crashing down on me when I read about Google Knol, the supposed “Wikipedia killer” under development by [...]

By: Google Knol: A Step Too Far?

Google Knol: A Step Too Far? — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 07:47:40 +0000

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WinExtra » Do I Get To Say I Told You So? — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:04:18 +0000

[...] Riley who was still at TechCrunch at the time said it would be a game changer: this month its a new project called “Knol” (which apparently stands for a unit of knowledge), [...]

By: Google Launches Knol, The Monetizable Wikipedia

Google Launches Knol, The Monetizable Wikipedia — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:10:17 +0000

[...] Google has launched Knol, its Wikipedia alternative that holds authors accountable for the articles they write. Each article is created by a team of [...]

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PC Revenge — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 11:12:22 +0000

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By: T-Error

T-Error — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:16:42 +0000

Lol of the day: Google’s Domainers and Knol.com…

Mid december 2007 Google announced its Wikipedia competitor “Knol” (what a name…). My guess is that it will be a huge “success” like Google Checkout (lesson: bad idea to come up with an alternative to a monopoly — e…

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By: Knol

Knol — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 17:58:28 +0000

knol…

We want to be the first resource center for Google Knol.
And what is a knol? Just a new web page format from Google, where authors will be able to write articles, and share advertising revenue.
For more information see:
http://googlebl...ot.com/2…

By: SticKer

SticKer — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 06:59:45 +0000

It wont be long before Google’s Knol (GPedia) will be competiting with Wikipedia. SticKer Webmaster Forum | Webmaster Blog

By: Mike (San Jose)

Mike (San Jose) — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 14:06:58 +0000

Knol is a code name (i.e. see “Longhorn” and Windows Vista).

The official name of the service is going to be GPedia (like Gmail), short for GooglePedia.com.

–
Mike

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 08:59:50 +0000

I once thought Google was a respectable company but this past few years all they have been doing is buying out companies and now there trying to ripoff from Wikipedia’s success.

By: Faramarz

Faramarz — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:06:50 +0000

Oddly enough, i was watching Seth Godin’s marketing lecture at Googleplex earlier today and he touches this very subject, with a quick plugin of his own service . (Seth founded Squidoo)

looks like they took his motivation to heart and are about ready to demolish him.

By: DavidEzra

DavidEzra — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:25:06 +0000

“The advantace of a free market is that it allows millions of decision-makers to respond individually to freely determined prices, allocating resources – labor, capital and human ingenuity – in a manor that can’t be mimicked by a central plan, however brilliant the central planner.” Freidrich von Hayek

In my mind, what it boils down to is this – who trumps who?

The free market … or a brilliant central planner / author!

Who will the masses look to as the both the most authoritative and – perhaps most important – the most objective source?

A number of people editing the same article would seem to lend to credibility for being perceived as being “unbiased” … as opposed to a single individual – who, although knowledgeable – is still beholden to certain opinions and views.

(Moreover, both are dependent on “contributers.” In my mind, the one that wins will be the one that has the superior content, which is a function of being able to attract the most numerous – and qualified – authors. If Google is perceived as being “evil” – this will definitely hurt them on a strategic front.)

By: stephen

stephen — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 18:50:13 +0000

the monetary incentive and author central mentality will damp the community spirit. i’m sure there will be some decent aspects, but there will be significant splintering of contributors with people trying to carve up the topic space for $$ => hello unstructured, noisy, redundant pseudo authoritative barf spamathelioma. definitely not a wikipedia killer like the later posts have pointed out… more like a mahalo killer, but thats not saying much…its like having mike tyson fight a dying bunny. hopefully they won’t resort to heavily “tweaking” wikipedia pages down in their SERPs in favor of these pages.

By: Victor Lai

Victor Lai — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 18:08:37 +0000

In response to Jonathan (10):
Why does a company need to invent something completely new to receive everyone’s approval? The reason Google got so big is because people like you and I USE their services everyday – they’re better than the competition. When they were starting out, these boards were full of Google-love, now they’ve get compared to Microsoft whenever they release a new product. Let the gov’t deal with antitrust issues. Advertising allows for free services – that is the future and Google is embracing it.

If they can do it better, isn’t that better for everyone?

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:39:01 +0000

The sucess of Knol will depend on how accurate the information is vs. Wikipedia and I don’t see how anyone will trust Knol over Wikipedia.

By: Karl Engblom

Karl Engblom — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:59:57 +0000

Why not let Google give it a try? Wikipedia certainly has its shortcomings:
1. The lack of recognition for contributors. Right now, the major form of recognition is the opportunity to have your work in the Wikipedia entry’s list of references. Your actual contribution is anonymous,and the smartest people are usually too busy to contribute to something without getting credit for it.

2. People messing around with articles. No comment necessary.

3. Outdated statistics. Updating statistics is boring compared to writing articles, so there are plenty of outdated statistics on Wikipedia. Finding statistics from original sources is daunting –noone has ever found what he’s looking for on a US government website, for example. Here’s a challenge for Google: why not persuade the original sources to provide you with direct, easy-to-digest statistics feeds? Then, whenever you are looking for a fact, you won’t get something that an unknown person cut-and-pasted from an unknown source at an unknown point in time, but the actual figures, straight from the responsible entity.

If Google solves these issues, Wikipedia has some serious competition.

By: gr

gr — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:58:46 +0000

Now, there is a conflict of interest between goog and the rest of the web. Goog can potentially clone the web (under the pretense of independently authored Knols) and own it all — embrace and extend.