mattcutts.com— The head of Google's Webspam team, Matt Cutts, weighs in on Google Knol, the potential Wikipedia killer which recently passed the 100,000 article mark.
Jan 28, 2009View in Crawl 4
Take over Wikipedia? Knol is a joke and wikipedia is probably the second biggest site in page hits after google. Knol have 100.000 pages, that took a long time. If you combine all the languages on wiki there's probably half a billion or sum.
Wikipedia "experts" would impede me using Knol if they could... or better, they would destroy Knol and impede all other knol-like services if they only could.... fortunately, they can't.Knol doesn't try to provide general acceptance articles. Knol tries to provide the information internet medium on which that general acceptance can start forming.
I just went through Knol now for the first time and realized the same thing. They seem to be very different tools. Knol seems to be competing with all the various How-To sites out there instead of wikipedia.
So the article about backpacking is still your flagship?By your description, Knol is NOT like Wikipedia...it's like Blogspot, or Wordpress, or project/special interest-related wikis, websites, etc...basically, the rest of the non-to-semi-commercial internet.It sounds to me like you're hedging your bets on being able to carve out a chunk of the internet by being nothing more than a sub-internet with circa 1995 capabilities (static text and multimedia). I just don't see where Knol is needed.
kasperuJan 28, 2009
Take over Wikipedia? Knol is a joke and wikipedia is probably the second biggest site in page hits after google. Knol have 100.000 pages, that took a long time. If you combine all the languages on wiki there's probably half a billion or sum.
beerduckJan 28, 2009
Searched for "music" and the first article promotes piracy :D<a class="user" href="http://knol.google.com/k/sara/how-to-download-free-music/hrlb64ddr57w/4#Finding_Music_With_Bit(2D)Torrent">http://knol.google.com/k/sara/how-to-download-free ...</a>
acteon29Jan 28, 2009
Wikipedia "experts" would impede me using Knol if they could... or better, they would destroy Knol and impede all other knol-like services if they only could.... fortunately, they can't.Knol doesn't try to provide general acceptance articles. Knol tries to provide the information internet medium on which that general acceptance can start forming.
cassanovaJan 28, 2009
I just went through Knol now for the first time and realized the same thing. They seem to be very different tools. Knol seems to be competing with all the various How-To sites out there instead of wikipedia.
honoredmuleJan 28, 2009
So the article about backpacking is still your flagship?By your description, Knol is NOT like Wikipedia...it's like Blogspot, or Wordpress, or project/special interest-related wikis, websites, etc...basically, the rest of the non-to-semi-commercial internet.It sounds to me like you're hedging your bets on being able to carve out a chunk of the internet by being nothing more than a sub-internet with circa 1995 capabilities (static text and multimedia). I just don't see where Knol is needed.
coreydoucoreyFeb 11, 2009
Hm... This makes me smile. <a class="user" href="http://manxl.org">http://manxl.org</a>