December 14th, 2007
Only The Knol Knows?
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Google introduces “Googlepedia” and many think its to replace “Wikipedia” …
I’ll agree with those who say its business. Google is a business doing whatever it can to stay at the top of the heap. What is wrong with that? They offer us better tools and information and more opportunities to make money. What is wrong with that?
At the same time though, I might lean towards a concern about marketers and spammers taking their usual chunk out of it and minimizing its effectiveness. I doubt we need more claims of click fraud either.
And it may not even launch…
“Earlier this week, we started inviting a selected group of people to try a new, free tool that we are calling “knol”, which stands for a unit of knowledge. Our goal is to encourage people who know a particular subject to write an authoritative article about it. The tool is still in development and this is just the first phase of testing. For now, using it is by invitation only.”
“At the discretion of the author, a knol may include ads. If an author chooses to include ads, Google will provide the author with substantial revenue share from the proceeds of those ads.”
Tags:Google Encyclopedia Google Knol Googlepedia Money Maker Spammer Magnet
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