Comments on: Is Google going after Wikipedia?

By: ambien

ambien — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:24:09 +0000

It has really helped me get to sleep. I would find myself still awake at 2 in the morning, staring at the walls. Then I couldn't get up in the morning. It's great!

By: Hello Knol — goodbye Mahalo? » mathewingram.com/work |

Hello Knol — goodbye Mahalo? » mathewingram.com/work | — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:38:16 +0000

[...] I said when I wrote about Knol back in December, I think it could become a pretty powerful tool, and the addition of Google AdSense is also [...]

By: hugh

hugh — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 02:48:12 +0000

one problem is that google is entering into the conflict of interest - as a search engine - that they previously shunned, and helped them become the kings of search.

other engines showed you what they wanted to show you; google showed you what you wanted to find.

as google becomes a content producer, they will, surely, game their search results in their own favour. there's no indication of how they will deal with this yet.

anyway, that's bad for the web, but, i suppose, inevitable.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 00:07:57 +0000

I think it will actually complement Wikipedia. Finding high quality, peer-reviewed articles on the web to support Wikipedia articles is currently really hard. If they become a success, knols could become an invaluable reference for Wikipedia articles.

By: Mark Evans » Blog Archive » Goog-pedia or Just Another Google App (JAGA?)

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 13:07:55 +0000

[...] surprisingly, there’s a lot of people such as Mathew Ingram and Steve Rubel are very excited about the possibilities but I’ll take a pragmatic approach [...]