Google going after wikipedia?

[mjp]

Similar to a wikipedia entry, but not anonymously authored. It will be interesting to see how this plays out, as I can only assume that Google will tend to give preferential search result ranking to their "knol"s (ranking them above corresponding wikipedia entries? - ha).

The other major improvement over wikipedia is that real world users can rank the article's relevance or usefulness. Interesting stuff.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/encouraging-people-to-contribute.html

http://www.google.com/help/knol_screenshot.html

 

[bospress.net]

anything that messes with the wiki-nazis makes me happy....

 

[Father Luke]

Wikipedia, while cunts, are still the leaders.
I hope Google Flattens them, and then someone flattens Google.

That's what I hope.

 

[jordan]

wow, this is the 4th blog listed in the "links to this post" section. congrats, mjp!

 

[mjp]

wha?

 

[Ninjerk]

I'll bet the pages end up looking much sloppier than link 2 shows.

 

[jordan]

wha?

when i read the blog you originally linked, there was a section at the bottom that said, "links to this post," with places around the net that linked to the google blog. buk.net was numero quatro. way to go!

 

[mjp]

I get it. They must have removed those.