Google has a new goal: help people share their knowledge. That’s right - forget Wikis, and welcome Knols (apparently "knol" stands for “unit of knowledge”). Although the service is right now invitation-only, the search giant isn’t shy about sharing what it’s trying to achieve (information domination). Knols will appear in Google search results, and it is promised that they will be ranked in order of quality. How will this beat Wikipedia? That’s an easy one. If the author chooses to, they can add advertising to a knoll and get a portion of the ad revenue.
The search giant plans to provide the software for writing and editing knols, as well as the hosting space for them. The knol project puts an emphasis on who wrote a given piece of information: “We believe that knowing who wrote what will significantly help users make better use of web content.” A knol is supposed to be the starting point for a research paper, it is meant to cover everything related to the topic, and Google swears not to change any information: “All editorial responsibilities and control will rest with the authors. We hope that knols will include the opinions and points of view of the authors who will put their reputation on the line. Anyone will be free to write”.
View: A Knol
News source: Google Blog
As for Google, I really like their page layout and view. It's a lot nicer than Wikipedia; and, like all other Google products, the search will be a lot better than Wikipedia. While I like the idea, I just doubt that it can compete with Wikipedia who has had many more years experience (unless they make sure topics are better reviewed somehow).
Corrupt? Hardly.
Read up about it. There was an interesting article on The Register about it a while back.
Read up about it. There was an interesting article on The Register about it a while back.
Like The Reg is a reliable source...
Perhaps you confusing The Reg with the Inquirer or whatever that other random site is.
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played! why do you think i'm getting all my xmas presents from the US?! It basically feels like a 50% sale! (Emphasis on 'feels', its probably more like 25...).
I've had it with Google already. Go to hell.
I've had it with Google already. Go to hell.
agreed
I've had it with Google already. Go to hell.
I don't mind google so much. the only thing that really bugs me is the 'Fisher-Price' feel of it all. I use gmail, and I wish it looked nicer.
That being said, I'm aware enough that I realise its friendly-friendly-We'reNotOutToMakeMoneyJustHelp approach will in some ways attract the other 90% of the internet population and ultimately lead to some kind of a corrupting monopoly. (you know the kind of people I'm talking about; the kind of people who didn't use AOL cd's as frisbees in the 90's, but instead took out a monthly subscription...!
just my
£0.02, £0.01Last edited by macf13nd on 15 Dec 2007 - 02:08
I've had it with Google already. Go to hell.
+1
Been sick of Google and their fanboys for a long time already though.
You don't actually want to "free the exploited" or any such altruistic nonsense; Really, you just want to be the exploiter!
Come on, admit it. Deep down you're just bitching because you hate being treated like a peon and you wish you were the big cheese instead. :| Sucks, don't it?
Now, if you'll excuse me, my shift in the slave mines of techoloigex mountain approaches and I need to do some groveling before the slave owners.
Gnolls are the literary descendants of Lord Dunsany's "gnoles", who were clever, evil and nonhuman. This connection is evidenced by Gary Gygax's description in the first edition of "Dungeons & Dragons" (1974): "A cross between gnomes and trolls (...perhaps, Lord Sunsany [sic] did not really make it all that clear) with +2 morale. Otherwise they are similar to hobgoblins..." With the 1977 publication of Gygax's Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual gnolls were described in greater detail as hyena-men, a characterization that continues to the present.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnoll
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(I am doing an imitation of a Knol)
Hey, if Microsoft could sue Lindows over heir name sounding too much like Windows, then why not him?
Hey, if Microsoft could sue Lindows over heir name sounding too much like Windows, then why not him?
With Google's G* names, he might soon get even more of a reason. They very well may end up renaming it to Gnols
Still, they'll both be good sources for those who are too thick to know how to turn pages in a book.
Maybe the google project will work, maybe not. It's worth trying though.
But I guess we can't all avoid the "we're here to help" illusion.
Google will always be a darling to many because it's free.
I say, if you can do something better than someone, go right ahead and do it.
hehe jokes
May be google can success where wikipedia failed.
ps
add supported encyclopedia...
somehow I don't see a guarantee of freedom of speech that is unlimited here.
Same thing with newspapers nowadays... read one and search for the level of critics for certain things that advertise in that paper, they are lower than in other papers...
also you should try to enter a market before its booming and almost impossible to catch up.
i mean wikipedia has reached a goal that kleenex has achieved for example: you wiki something.
you do not "search on wikipedia". (not every1 uses this expression, but it obviously is common).
Glassed Silver:mbl
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