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Re: Google unveils Knol, its accountable take on Wikipedia

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Re: Google unveils Knol, its accountable take on Wikipedia

Tom Limongello — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:31:19 -0000

I guess we'll have to get working to revive the deleted wikipedia profile for the FailWhale on Knol and Twine, maybe wikimedia....

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/i...

Tom

Re: Google unveils Knol, its accountable take on Wikipedia

MG Siegler — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:18:31 -0000

yeah normally i'd agree, but those google search rankings can be tricky things and they certainly determine a lot of traffic :)

Re: Google unveils Knol, its accountable take on Wikipedia

MG Siegler — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:17:46 -0000

yeah people are throwing around squidoo and mahalo as well for comparisons, i think the spirit of the project is clearly going for wikipedia though.

Re: Google unveils Knol, its accountable take on Wikipedia

MG Siegler — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:16:45 -0000

ha ha, i agree with that. I'm honestly not even sure the correct pronunciation. I've seen both "nole" and "knowl"

Re: Google unveils Knol, its accountable take on Wikipedia

Nick Stamoulis — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:16:25 -0000

It will be interesting to see how it fairs with Wikipedia.. we think overall - it doesn't quite stand a chance but then again, it's Google - you never quite know.

Re: Google unveils Knol, its accountable take on Wikipedia

hypermark — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:28:05 -0000

Personally, this feels like a potential competitor to About.com, which has proven to be a really nice business for NYT.

Re: Google unveils Knol, its accountable take on Wikipedia

Stu — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:13:24 -0000

== The name “knol” is “a nice, very simple word to remember, and it’s part of knowledge,” Manber tells Wired. ==

Honestly I think it's a pretty bad name. Does it rhyme with mole or moll? I'm assuming that the K is silent, but that's another thing that will hurt its uptake of recognition. And with little recognition, you can't talk about it without spelling the word out so your listener knows what you're talking about. Meh. And try saying "nahl" a few times, I start feeling like I"m going to accidentally swallow my tongue.

Re: Google unveils Knol, its accountable take on Wikipedia

Nova Spivack — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:45:28 -0000

Thanks -- I don't know if I can accept such adulation, but Twine is certainly worth looking at for anyone interested in collective intelligence on the Web.

Re: Google unveils Knol, its accountable take on Wikipedia

Butler Lampson — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:26:51 -0000

None of this shit is semantic, so wiki sucks, knol sucks. If you want to see something real in action, the first real progress in computer science in the last 30 years, see www.radarnetworks.com