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I read about Google’s answer to Wikipedia called Knol a couple of days ago when they launched it to the public. it’s funny that today, when I wanted to write about it, I went to http://www.knol.com and landed on the website of the REAL KNOL, a website owned by a Dutch company selling steam cleaning equipment.
The REAL Knol
So that’s one down for Google for not owning the domain name! Can you just imagine the surge in traffic for this Dutch site? That’s seriously funny!
Google Knol
Anyway, Knol is supposedly a “unit of knowledge” and what it strives to be is a database of authoritative articles on specific topics. This is for people who do not want to keep blogs, but who would still like to share their knowledge and publish an article online AND earn from AdSense.
People are already reporting that articles on Knol are getting higher search result rankings on Google Search Engine just like Blogger blog posts will get crawled and ranked faster, and this is a conflict of interest.
I foresee Knol replacing blogs for advertising solely for SEO purposes as SEO “experts” churn out knol after knol, you know?
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One Response to "Do You Knol?"
August 8th, 2008 at 7:01 am
It is funny; the store which own the knol.com website haven been offered an amount with 5 zeros…. But that would mean that they have to change all the company paperwork etc…. So - they want a 6 zeros amount….