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Knol: a unit of knowledge

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Knol: a unit of knowledge
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http://knol.google.com/k#

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    • . .•∞º˙ . .•∞º˙
      17 months ago


      yeah--that and a cup of coffee and I could have a nickel...
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    • John Goodwin John Goodwin
      17 months ago


      Must confess to being a bit confused as to what is new about knol. Is it not just a wikipedia type thing??
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    • . .•∞º˙ . .•∞º˙
      17 months ago


      it's Wikipedia with ad revenue built in for the author, via Google adsense. (And Twain's in on the initial development somehow, but won't talk about it, because she's afraid Google's gonna cut her off at the knees or something [tic-lol]).

      You also get to rate the author as well as the article posted, so supposedly, the veracity of the article can be better verified based on a trust-type rating. Kinda hokey if you ask me, and Google will probably give knol-based subjects higher rankings in google-searches so they end up pushing their own "verified" content or something.
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      • John Goodwin John Goodwin
        17 months ago


        Thanks for pointing out the new stuff :) So I can be a millionaire by just writing a few words of wisdom ? If only it were that easy..
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    • fedora fedora
      17 months ago


      I don't see how this just want fall into self-promotion and marketing (mayhaps spam). The Google rankings have been proven to be great on substantial keywords and without strict community moderation (like in Wikipedia) who's to stop people from splashing their stuff everywhere?

      I was thinking of maybe posting some of my Way Things Articles there, but it feels ... I don't know.... dirty or something.
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      • shal shal
        17 months ago


        Because of monetizing the content? If you don't, people will do instead of you (ok it doesn't / should mean that you have to but just shed some light on this feeling ^^)
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        • fedora fedora
          17 months ago


          Yeah maybe it's because of the ad revenue . . . but mostly it feels like spam. I'll test the waters on a couple "authoritative" pieces and see where it goes.
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    • Javed Alam Javed Alam
      17 months ago


      Here is first impression from a blogger on knol

      http://blog.dhananjaynene.com/2008/07/my-first-impressions-of-google-knol/#

      Google is offering multiple solutions for web publishing. Here is a partial list I can think of

      1. http://pages.google.com/ A quick web page creation tool
      2. http://sites.google.com/site/sites/ Google solution for creating group web sites
      3. http://knol.google.com/k# A wiki style web publishing
      4. http://docs.google.com Another publishing tool
      5. http://blogger.com free web log creation tool

      and full blown application development environment at http://code.google.com/appengine/

      All of these have one thing in common they all run on Google infrastructure and relatively inexpensive, mostly free. They also are very friendly with web masters through their generous offering on how to develop web pages that their bots can parse easily.

      They lead in search right now but this space is very competitive and nobody has been able to keep the upper hand in this area for too long. Considering this it is highly likely that they may like to become a utility that provides very cheap computing like electricity. Their main competitor in this area surprisingly is Amazon, an original book seller through their EC 3 offerings.

      IMHO Goggle is practicing what could at best be called controlled chaos. Where instead of guessing what product will be good let market place decide what is good for them by offering all the choices I mentioned above and more. Basically one can see the use of genetic algorithm in real life practice. Let the survivors grow and products not preferred by the market place die out. It is just that they own all the products so who ever wins it is still them. It is like betting not on one guessed winning horse who may win or may not win but bet on all the horses and that will ensure that the company will have the winner in the end. It requires enormous amount of resources and money to play this strategy.

      Even with this they have not won all the time. Example: Orkurt vs Facebook/Myspace. Orkut was one of the first SNS but crown seems to be going to facebook lately through their paying attention to extremely minor details on how the user interface should evolve and what should be the APIs for developers. People can learn to develop simple Facebook applications in few hours time. Otherwise there are too many SNS doing exactly the same thing and they are open source but do not get the traction Facebook is getting among users.

      PS: Google is discontinuing Google pages and its user are migrating to sites.google.com
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      • shal shal
        17 months ago


        Orkut seems to have more success in South America but for sure it is nothing in comparison with Facebook / MySpace.
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