Comments on: Google Knol: A Step Too Far?

By: gutierrez/su » O Google e a Wikipedia

gutierrez/su » O Google e a Wikipedia — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:46:48 +0000

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By: private label rights

private label rights — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:03:14 +0000

sounds like you hate google, and from your other comments you hate freedom too.

By: Knol: Several experts see Knol as Google’s attempt to compete with Wikipedia. « The “Meta” Internet: The genesis of a “virtual” Silicon Valleys leveraging the power of the Internet.

Sat, 04 Apr 2009 11:15:25 +0000

[...] Riley, Duncan (2007-12-14). “Google Knol: A Step Too Far?“. TechCrunch. Retrieved on [...]

By: TechCrunch On Google Knol « memoirs on a rainy day

TechCrunch On Google Knol « memoirs on a rainy day — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 03:50:19 +0000

[...] TechCrunch On Google Knol Published March 7, 2009 asides , technology Tags: asides, Google, knol, techcrunch, technology TechCrunch on Google Knol. Problems for Wikipedia? [...]

By: Squidoo HQ

Squidoo HQ — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 19:40:15 +0000

Wow, looks like the the positives and negatives are just about equal.

By: Google Knol: New Ad Revenue Opportunity | Money Maker

Google Knol: New Ad Revenue Opportunity | Money Maker — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:08:04 +0000

[...] caught my attention is the opportunity to cash-in on this as TechCrunch reported where it mentions “If an author chooses to include ads, Google will provide the author with [...]

By: Google’s knols square off against Wikipedia | The Evolving Newsroom

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 07:17:45 +0000

[...] and whether the project’s a step too far on Google’s part. Duncan Riley’s post on Tech Crunch is as good a place to start as [...]

By: شريف صلاح شعيب

شريف صلاح شعيب — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:58:07 +0000

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By: Wikipedia’s Competitor - Google’s KNOL « Aneta Hall’s Weblog

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 03:54:10 +0000

[...] Duncan Riley at TechCrunch writes that Google is starting to create a potentially huge body of content that it will have an incentive to favor in search results over other links. [...]

By: Sunny

Sunny — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 06:22:30 +0000

first read the blog entry on Sitepoint – replied there & came here to read more about Google’s knol step. First time when I saw knol I was happy to see that there is one more resource to share information on internet ! Now I am amazed to see logic behind this , still everybody here is to make money & do business – One word not trying to go Anti but Everything is fair in Business.

If MSN, Yahoo or someone who is against this strategy – they are now warned & at the end of the day last audience will get the BEST !

By: Mi otro blog… » Blog Archive » Knol: �La Wikipedia de Google?

Mi otro blog… » Blog Archive » Knol: �La Wikipedia de Google? — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:40:21 +0000

[...] (muy improbable en mi opini�n), abundando las negativas, como las de ValleyWag, Mashable o Techcrunch e incluso hay quien habla de un posible abuso de posici�n dominante (aduciendo que Google podr�a [...]

By: Jason King

Jason King — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:25:52 +0000

Knol is currently a rubbish service. Many of the articles are plagiarised, often from Wikipedia, and many others are simply ads for companies.

Google ought to be able to flag up if an article is a flagrant copy of content already on the web. They’ve already got the tech to spot duplicate online content.

The quality control issue is more difficult to solve because it relies on people, not algorithms. Without a committed community such as Wikipedia’s, Knol will quickly be over-run with junk and be worthless. And nothing I’ve seen will convince Wikipedia’s users to jump ship.

Google have some great ideas but not always the commitment to see them through to completion.

By: Roshan

Roshan — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:17:15 +0000

I know from my experience that Squidoo has the ability dominate the giant’s google for competitive keyword phrase. now I feels that I should start digg on Google knol too.

By: Will Video for Food » Will Knol For Food: A Weird Blend of Wordpress, Blogger, Ask.com, Wikipedia and eBay

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:59:59 +0000

[...] the content business (which is like being the broker and seller in one). What cracks me up about this TechCrunch article is that it doesn’t point out a similar situation. It’s, um, called [...]

By: BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Google competes with the internet

BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Google competes with the internet — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:44:36 +0000

[...] It’s not as if Google wasn’t warned. Here were Danny Sullivan and Duncan Riley fearing that Google had gone a step too far when word of Knol got out in [...]

By: December 17, 2007 | TechTV Update

December 17, 2007 | TechTV Update — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:59:16 +0000

[...] look like this. Gigaom says this shows Google’s monopolist claws, TechCrunch says it may be a step too far. Meanwhile fourth-place browser company Opera is trying to de-claw Microsoft, with an antitrust [...]

By: Google Knol « Securitybg’s Weblog

Google Knol « Securitybg’s Weblog — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:28:15 +0000

[...] сайт подобен на wikipedia и наскоро представиха няколко screenshots на новата система наречена Google [...]

By: Google’s Knol: No Wikipedia Killer « The “Meta” Internet: The genesis of a “virtual” Silicon Valleys leveraging the power of the Internet.

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:50:50 +0000

[...] the ever-present potential for spam. But the biggest concern he and others like Duncan Riley at TechCrunch have is that Google in a sense is creating–if not owning–a potentially huge body of [...]

By: Google to Wikipedia: “Knol” thine enemy « The “Meta” Internet: The genesis of a “virtual” Silicon Valleys leveraging the power of the Internet.

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:06:48 +0000

[...] “brings the power of Google into a marketplace that is already rich with competition,” writes Duncan Riley, “and a marketplace where Google can use its might to crush that competition by [...]

By: ds

ds — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 02:17:34 +0000

since knol results will be at the top, there will be a lot of knols with the sole purpose of advertising. after a few years, most knols will be advertisements. this will take advertising to a whole new level, possibly increasing other forms of advertising? if this happens, most google results will be cheap advertisements and people will switch to other search engines like yahoo or msn, I would

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:10:31 +0000

With the introduction of Google Knol just now Squidoo will probably be forced to pay 100% of advertising revenue to its authors as oondi (http://www.oondi.com) is already doing.

By: Marian Peters

Marian Peters — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 05:24:29 +0000

Actually, “knol” was just the codename for this project.

According to some sources, the actual name is “Unipedia”

Sounds like a better name than “knol”.

I quite like the idea that Unipedia will share revenue of any ads with the authors.

By: kevin_vacit@linuxmail.org

kevin_vacit@linuxmail.org — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 16:24:31 +0000

Angel, what “limited views” and “opinions” are you referring to? That the 1908 Tunguska impact event was caused by antimatter and not a meteorite? Or perhaps the view that the holocaust never really happened? Or that the moon landings were faked?

Maybe you forget that an encyclopedia must be objective, factual and unemotional. In cases where facts are disputed, Occam’s razor is applied. Wikipedia is remarkably objective and neutral thanks to the many volunteers who give their time to protect its content from trolls, crackpots and magical thinkers.

Who knows, maybe some good will come of Knol. Its “feature” of not being able to modify content might lure the politicisers away from Wikipedia and thereby increase its signal to noise ratio.

Kind Regards,
Kevin.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 07:35:08 +0000

I am quite ready for an alternative to Wikipedia (even considering looking into ways to block it). It’s convenient, but its massive hypocrisy — the disconnect between its professed principles and the way it actually works — causes me to distrust anything I find there. Three cheers for personal responsibility — “Knol” style.

By: Angel

Angel — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 22:10:33 +0000

There is a need for Knol. Wikipedia is held hostage by the limited views and opinions of a conservative select few. Fresh, novel insights and other true aspects relating to many other subject are often totally excluded.