Hi All, Do you know Google is planning for site named Knol to beat wiki pls read this article http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/google-knol-wikipedia-nlblog-071218/ Thanks!
I don't think Knol would be able to generate Gigabytes (in fact, Terabytes) of content, like Wikipedia. Plus, it will need tons of users to do that. Only, time will tell...
I have read it and I am worry for Wiki, firstly I search google and normally I get directed to Wiki. I suspect a lot of traffic from Wiki comes from Google. So if Google had their own Knol, for any search term they can replace Wiki with Knol, Wiki will definitely suffer a huge loss from Google traffic. It seemed that through the dominance in search engines, Google is really branching out successfully into every facet of Internet, Gmail is a very successful eg. Looks like Wiki is next.....
Hmm, is this al lbecasue they couldn't buy Wiki pedia? google are going to complately own wikipedia's traffic.
They can't buy it thats the problem. Wiki may be like a religion, but a lot of us check Gmail religiously too. And also use Google without fail for anything.....
Just yesterday gknol.com and gknol.org is registered, but not gknol.net. Anyone wanna give it a shot? Anyway, knowledge aggregation bears a bright future, Google has no reason to give up on it. Google has barely lost any battles in what they do now, so they'll pretty much succeed also on this project.
I don't think wikipedia would be direct competition since knoll have somewhat different concept like they have voting system which will decide what content is best and going to be remain there, if I am not wrong.
Knol - stupid name. But if only they replace wiki from search engine... or put it on the top of adwords for every searched phrase. Wiki can loose significant amount of readers.
Yeah, at the moment wikki gets around 2000 donnaters aday. But everywhere I go, move, I hear 'Wikipedia' I've also haerd of people inventing games out of Wikipedia!
Issue about Google is they are able to reinvent the game. They don't defeat you at your own game, they reinvent the rules and the games and defeat you according to the rules they define. They are super innovative. Wiki had better be careful.......
I really hope this goes nowhere for Google. We need diversification from the sources we get our information from. If there is one central base that controls all the information on the net, it leads to censorship, misinformation, and other junk like this.
As I said in the other thread: I believe knol or however it will be named will certainly beat wikipedia in quantity of topics/pages, but not in quality...the whole revenue sharing idea kinda ruins it.
knol will definitely beat wiki as it is a online giant and having great trust in public. they can easily find interested people who can share their ideas on different topics. But still long way to go for google. it will take time.
Knol doesn't seem to be a serious threat to Wikipedia. Many people see Knol articles as an authoritative sources for its informative pages.