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Thursday, July 24, 2008
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Google's Knol: A Wikipedia Killer?
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Google first announced Knol, a user-generated, online encyclopedia, back in December 2007. It's been in hibernation since then as it spooled up its design, added content, and otherwise coalesced. Yesterday it finally went live, albeit with only several hundred articles. Can it really take on Wikipedia?
Knol, short for knowledge, is meant to draw upon subject experts for its content. According to Wired, Google is banking on the project to give experts the platform they need to share their knowledge with the world.
Think you are pretty smart and should be sending in articles for the rest of the world to read? Hold your horses. You need to be vetted, first. Wired reports that Google verifies authors' real names via credit cards, so there can be some level of accountability for the information being shared. If a contributor really screws something up, and readers raise a stink about it, Google will be able to go back to that contributor easily for any corrections or updates.
The fledgling service has a long way to go before it can say it is on equal footing with Wikipedia. In the meantime, it will continue to do what it can to attract contributors to add to its bank of data about this and that.
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Sounding Board: Readers Weigh In
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"Google does not show which Parked Domains the ads are on because it does not want to show how much better parked domains convert to sales over Google searches."
- Posted by Johnny
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LETS GROK!
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Is The Air Leaking From Google's Bubble?
Last week, Google saw its share price plunge after reporting a 39% increase in quarterly revenue over the same period a year ago -- not good enough for investors accustomed to seeing 50% to 60% revenue jumps from the search giant.
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Google's Patents At Risk?
A provocatively titled post at the Patently-O blog, The Death of Google's Patents, suggests that the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office's narrowing view of patentable innovation may invalidate some of the company's patents.
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