[WikiEN-l] Why Google's online encyclopedia will never be as good as Wikipedia.

[Flameviper Velifang]

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Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:06:49 +0100
From: "Al Tally" <majorly.wiki at googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Why Google's online encyclopedia will never be
    as    good as Wikipedia.
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On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 1:37 AM, Keith Old <keithold at gmail.com> wrote:

> G'day Wikipedia folks,
>
> Farhad Manjoo of Slate has written a damning review of Knol.
>
> http://www.slate.com/id/2200401/
>
> "There are two articles about Sarah Palin on Google
> Knol<http://knol.google.com/k/knol>,
> the search company's abysmal new Wikipedia-like reference guide. One
> of them<
> http://knol.google.com/k/marc-samuel-delvarello/sarah-palin/34hdx7ks0jha3/93?pli=1
> >is
> a mess: Just a few hundred words long, the article is fraught with
> factual and grammatical errors." More in article
>

It looks like someone's school essay on her... I mean, come on, there's
blatant typos there...

-- 
Alex
(User:Majorly)
 
You see, this is why we have the [edit] button.
 
/me smirks contentedly