Is anyone earning money from google's knol? I decided to give it a try today and there are several things that I was "surprised" with. First, they want you to leave your whole contact info so that they can call you to verify. Ok, that was done and a minute later I've got a call from an automated service. I was almost ready to start my very first knol, but before that I needed to add the Adsense to my knol account. I've done everything and now it has pending status, and it says that "it may take up to 2 weeks". Wow. If it takes up to 2 weeks to verify an active US based account that I am using for the past 4 years, then I don't know...
Yes, very vague. Funny how fast they can verify your NEW Knol acct., but takes 2 weeks to verify my EXISTING Adsense. It lets the Knol entries run w/o G. having to pay you anything.
guys, relax. Yesterday I thought that was their biggest problem - the slow verification process. Guess what? I've been told today and have just experienced myself - after you publish your knol it simply can't be found anywhere... I can't believe it.
Wow and I just read this Line from their introduction page. BTW you said they require 2 weeks for verification, can anyone write knols before that?
They're also trying to prevent link farms from spamming the site. Some people aren't interested in giving out their real contact information on the internet. So that process will likely discourage a lot of spammers from signing up. It helps the legitimate people tremendously.