Google’s latest idea! GooglePedia!
p2pnet news view | Advertising:- “With Knol, we are introducing a new method for authors to work together that we call ‘moderated collaboration’,” says Google in the introduction to its newest advertising magnet.
“With this feature, any reader can make suggested edits to a knol which the author may then choose to accept, reject, or modify before these contributions become visible to the public. This allows authors to accept suggestions from everyone in the world while remaining in control of their content. After all, their name is associated with it!”
Gosh! What a revolutionary idea! Why hasn’t someone thought of it before!
But wait. They have.
It’s called the Wikipedia.
In December last year p2pnet posted »»»
“The challenge posed to us by Larry, Sergey and Eric was to find a way to help people share their knowledge.”
Larry, Sergey and Eric are, of course, L. Page, S. Brin and E. Schmidt, the billionaires who want to be zillionaires, and who run Google.
And their latest idea to help make this happen is the “knol”, short for a unit of knowledge.
Yes.
“Our goal is to encourage people who know a particular subject to write an authoritative article about it,” continues Udi Manber, VP engineering on the the Google blog.
That looks familiar. Like, isn’t that what Wikipedia does? So will this be called the Googlepedia?
Manber goes on:
“The tool is still in development and this is just the first phase of testing. For now, using it is by invitation only. But we wanted to share with everyone the basic premises and goals behind this project.
“The key idea behind the knol project is to highlight authors.”
And by way of example, Udi Manber has a page on insomnia written by Rachel Manber (right) who’s the director of behavioural sleep medicine at Stanford University.
What a coincidence
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Now, in a straight Wikipedia rip-off, “Knols include strong community tools which allow for many modes of interaction between readers and authors. People can submit comments, rate, or write a review of a knol,” says Google.
Then comes the punch-line »»»
At the discretion of the author, a knol may include ads from our AdSense program. If an author chooses to include ads, Google will provide the author with a revenue share from the proceeds of those ad placements.
No need to stay tuned.
Jon Newton – p2pnet
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July 24th, 2008 at 8:32 am
Hi Jon,
““Our goal is to encourage people who know a particular subject to write an authoritative article about it,” continues Udi Manber, VP engineering on the the Google blog. That looks familiar. Like, isn’t that what Wikipedia does?”
Actually, no it is not. Wikipedia has a standing order against “Original Research”, as they call it. In effect they limit their content to information that can be verified through other websites.
And Wikipedia certainly has its problems. I would enjoy seeing Google give them a run for their (donated) money.
Ciao
Robert Chapin
Chapin Information Services, Inc.
July 24th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
Competition is always a good thing. If google can do a better job than wikipedia, then I say fine.
July 25th, 2008 at 6:42 am
I agree. Anyway, it will be another good source that we can use to make Wikipedia better. Wikipedia folks are always looking for good reliable sources, and it sounds as though this project may qualify.