[WikiEN-l] Google Knol: Move over Wikipedia?

Will Beback will.beback.1 at gmail.com
Fri Dec 14 21:24:06 UTC 2007


Utkarshraj Atmaram wrote:
> "A knol on a particular topic is meant to be the first thing someone
> who searches for this topic for the first time will want to read."
>
> <http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/encouraging-people-to-contribute.html>
>
>   

I predict that some enterprising souls will quickly "create" knols by 
using GFDL text from Wikipedia, thus getting paid for the work of 
others. After that, other writers will take the same text and modify it 
to improve its popularity, creating dozens of variations on the same text.

Will



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