TechCrunch:
We’ve known for a while that Google’s Knol is no Wikipedia killer, but now the knowledge-sharing site is being reduced to a sad Craigslist wannabe. The original idea behind Knol was that people could collaboratively write de (Read More)
TechCrunch:
This is only one data point. But at least the Wikipedia entry on TechCrunch doesn’t state that we sell corn and oat cereal, and it wasn’t written by someone whose bio simply reads “Troll“. Other than (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Google Knol, which we’ve likened to a monetizable Wikipedia upon launch, has quietly released three international versions today, enabling French, German and Italian speaking experts (or people who like to think they ar (Read More)
Google Blogoscoped:
Google AdSense ads are embedded in websites all across the web. As a webmaster, you have the option to let Google display Public Service Ads when they cannot find a fitting other ad; these ads will not earn the webmaster reve (Read More)
Submitted by davidpetherick:
IS Google Knol broken, or are they clearing out spam - some worrying looking error messages appearing at the moment on the site. (Read More)
Write Great Google Knols:
Over at Mashable, Mark has written an article pointing out that, only three days after Knol’s release, nefarious SEO types are experimenting with ways to spam Knol:The time for speculation as to when this will occur, th (Read More)
Digital Biographer™:
The Google Knol I created on the 24th of July entitled ‘How to Read the Russian Alphabet in 75 Minutes‘ was already appearing on Page 1 of a Google Search for “read russian” with 12,300,000 results fol (Read More)
Everyone's Blog Posts - Knol Roll:
Uploaded with plasq's Skitch!Google Knol has to do better than this to verify author identity.The alternative verification method, credit card, is also USA only. What's wrong with using Google Adsense, Gmail, Google Checkout, (Read More)
Write Great Google Knols:
One of the big questions about Google Knol is about its impact on SEO. Specifically, how will knols rank in search engine results? Google has a long (though imperfect tradition) of ‘not being evil’. But, as many h (Read More)
Everyone's Blog Posts - Knol Roll:
The Google Knol I created 24th July entitled 'How to Read the Russian Alphabet in 75 Minutes' was already appearing on 25th July on Page 1 of a Google Search for "read russian" with 12,300,000 results following. I have updat (Read More)
Write Great Google Knols:
I’ve been compiling an ad hoc list of some of the communities that have immediately sprung up around Google Knol. Obviously the site itself has a ton of community (consider all the action on, say, this knol on writing k (Read More)
Everyone's Blog Posts - Knol Roll:
Interestingly, the Google knol on insomnia that was used when announcing Knol In December 2007 also appears in a Squidoo Lens by Seth Godin, and coming across this just while writing this article, when I searched (through goo (Read More)
Everyone's Blog Posts - Knol Roll:
Google. They keep doing this. Coming up with a large-impact, hard-to-predict, and rare events beyond the realm of normal expectations…So, here is the next Black Swan from Google:- a highly improbable event that is unpredictab (Read More)