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07-25-2008, 01:00 AM
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· #1 | | NamePros Regular Join Date: Oct 2007
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| Google Knol - The end of the humble article site?
So Google just launched a beta of Knol ( http://knol.google.com/), their site to compete with Wikipedia.
I had a look at it, and it just looks like most of the higher-end article sites.
I personally don't think it looks like it will be able to compete with Wikipedia, but I think we can say goodbye to the humble article site.
What do you think?
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07-25-2008, 02:20 AM
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· #2 | | DNOA Member Name: Shane Location: West Sussex - England Join Date: Aug 2007
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| Woah they are high quality articles! It will compete with Wikipedia, who will win I dont know. I reckon Google will try and buy Wikipedia. | |
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07-25-2008, 02:48 AM
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· #3 | | NamePros Regular Join Date: Oct 2007
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| Yeah they are high quality articles, written by highly qualified people. But I think it lacks the structure of Wikipedia. Goodluck to them but I don't think it is quite as good. | |
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07-25-2008, 03:13 AM
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· #4 | | DNOA Member Name: Shane Location: West Sussex - England Join Date: Aug 2007
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| I quite like it, and as it is very new I may try and write a few articles for it  | |
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07-25-2008, 03:38 AM
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· #5 | | www.1weblord.com Name: William R. Nabaza - williamrnabaza.com Location: Philippines - www.Nabaza.com Join Date: Dec 2005
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| the articles and how to's posted on knol are of high-quality but it won't replace Wikipedia i think supplementary reading | |
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07-25-2008, 06:07 AM
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· #6 | | DNOA Member Name: Shane Location: West Sussex - England Join Date: Aug 2007
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| I wonder if Google will ever buy Knol.com If they do I would estimate about low - mid $x,xxx,xxx because they say on their site that they will not sell. | |
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07-25-2008, 08:57 AM
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· #7 | | NamePros Member Location: USA Join Date: Dec 2007 | Personally, I don't think any site has a chance of catching up to Wikipedia. | |
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07-27-2008, 10:19 AM
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· #8 | | Senior Member Name: Lygeia Location: Studio City Join Date: Aug 2006
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| It does look good on first glance. I've already noticed one "domainer" who has written as an expert on 10 different topics. So I fully expect more of the same.
In fact I will give it a whirl, I'm a writer, and there's bound to be a handful of topics I can write about that would connect with some of my sites. | |
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