Earlier this week we reported that Google had opened up Knol, its Wikipedia competitor, to the public. It had announced a private beta of the service last December.
Now that Knol is public, it makes us wonder who you would rather party with: Knol experts, Squidoo lensmasters or Wikipedia editors?
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Rob,
Interesting cartoon. About Knol, however, I have a recent analysis on the revolution behind it. You might be interested in reading it.
Yihong
Posted by: Yihong Ding | July 27, 2008 3:09 PM
Wikipedia editors are the coolest. The rest are just greedy wannabes.
Posted by: Raanan Avidor
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July 27, 2008 3:25 PM
Knol is competition to sites like Squidoo or eioba.com, not Wikipedia.
Posted by: Andrus | July 27, 2008 4:46 PM
Wikipedia is still the authority for now.
Posted by: TechSlice | July 27, 2008 6:32 PM
Neat article, @Yihong. I'll have to read it in more detail when I have the time.
@Ravidor, if you saw my Squidoo revenues, you'd know greed isn't my motivation. :-)
@Andrus - in a sense you're completely right, and I was a little baffled by all of the coverage suggesting Google was going head-to-head with Wikipedia. And it's Squidoo and similar sites that I suspect are the most nervous about this development. But the Knol model (authority bolstered by community) is certainly in competition with the Wikipedia model (wisdom of crowds).
Thanks, all - keep the comments coming!
Posted by: Rob Cottingham | July 27, 2008 7:07 PM
Wikipedia is authoritative until Google place there pages higher in results and i think KNOL will replace Wikipedia in no time.
Posted by: Tech Blogger FutureBells.com | July 27, 2008 11:45 PM
Obviously Knol because of the larger money earning capacity involved in it.
Posted by: Sachin | July 27, 2008 11:59 PM
Knol is made by google which will be promoted by leader of search engine market i.e. Google and afterwards used for making money through advertisements..
Bad time started for others...
Posted by: Outsourced Product Development | July 28, 2008 1:48 AM
I don't think its will have an impact on wiki Wikipedia is still the authority. Google must understand the innovation is bringing new needed services not the substitutes.
Posted by: Usman | July 28, 2008 2:38 AM
ein netter gruß aus saarbrücken.
wünsche eine tolle, sonnige woche
erich
Posted by: erich christoph-borger | July 28, 2008 5:43 AM
yes Wikipedia is still the authority
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