Comments on: Google's Knol experiment to rival Wikipedia?

Will Google ever launch Knol, its wiki-plus-Blogger experiment? It is being compared to Wikipedia and Mahalo, with a focus on the author.

[consultantseoservices]

Knol, Wiki, Digg or anything. It?s all about for webmaster?s latest technology to use and get profits. Hope, Google could do better than previous techlogy.

Let?s say all the best Knol!

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[AppleSuxLeo]

Yep...they will kill off Wikipedia just like they killed off PayPal,Yahoo Mail and Windows Live Mail ;) Bwahahahaha !!!

[wakyman1995]

google will probably make easir tools than wikipedia, not everyone knows html

i hope wikipedia stays though

[bigoakinc]

I'm curious how Google will deal with the problem of similar content. At least Wikipedia consolidates content from multiple authors. What will Knol do? Will multiple authors be allowed to write about the same thing? Or will it be first written, first served? Will quality of the article be taken into account and if so, by whose standards?

[Rod Roddy]

NAH, Google hasn't taken anything over--it just buys it. As far as its push to wards a web based office suite, or a gigantic wiki--they still have a loooong way to go. Microsoft will not go down without a fight, I'm sure of it (they do have the most widely used office product in the galaxy). And Wikipedia is way too entrenched into the worldwide psyche--it'll never happen...of course as I said Google just flat out buys them.

[chandank]

Though Google is a good company and it's products are generally good. But what I have best liked and still like about Google is it's a people's company. It has a good user base and it has always respected users knowledge. But with this move of trying to compete with the Internet's community's best knowledge base, Wikipedia, Google I guess is going against the the users. Google is loved by users, but I am not sure an effort to crush Wikipedia, something which is created by internet users, how good a move it that. I would have loved it if Google had rather have supported Wikipedia.

[DrAlvi]

Wikipedia rules.

And so does AskDrWiki

[emoslayer6224]

Google will just buy them. I don't really care to use html when there is a perfectly free Ajax based editor that Google supplies. There's no point. Still, I will only complain if Google changes the hierarchy and no longer allows editing. They should, however, get rid of the little circle of paranoid morons that bans users for not making their edits in the same style as they use.

[geneven]

I don't think Wikipedia can easily be killed off. It's awesome. It's not standing still. Just as Google's book publishing didn't eliminate Gutenberg Project -- it has limits.

[dsarokin]

There's a good page explaining how about.com generates revenue:

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=767877

It seems to involve a corner of the online advertising world that Google doesn't dominate yet, and may well explain the attraction (at least, part of it) of experimenting with Knol.

[LinkStarbureiy]

It's too early to tell how well-received or relevant Google Knol (GK) will become. Though, taking nothing away from the efforts of Wikipedia, I personally use and like the product (GK) and think it's a great service to academia. If nothing else, the system encourages people to write and share knowledge; at the very least, it's a reputation-builder. This could be yet another way for enterprises to cite the online resumes of prospective hires (Ahem! Potential Egglepple hires take note ;).

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