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• detritus

  Meet 'Knol', http://knol.google.com/

  Google's response to Wikipedia, but with named authors, rather than complete anonymity.

  Jul 24, 08, 3:41 a.m. – Permalink

• detritus

  (ie. You'll need to sign up for an account if you want to edit anything)

  

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  Dog-earJul 24, 08, 3:42 a.m. – Permalink

• Spookytim

  That's going to kill Wikipedia.

  

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  Dog-earJul 24, 08, 3:44 a.m. – Permalink

• peterorpete

  reckon? knoling something dont have the same ring

  • ohyeah, well have would you knol?– PeterH

  

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  Dog-earJul 24, 08, 3:45 a.m. – Permalink

• Spookytim

  True, and also, its less democratic... once you've made a knol about WW2 Spitfire engines nobody can correct you if what you've said is incorrect.

  Wikipedia is going to kill this.

  : )

  • I might chance my username to flipflop.– Spookytim

  

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  Dog-earJul 24, 08, 3:46 a.m. – Permalink

• ukit

  I will kill them both *brandishes knife*

  

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  Dog-earJul 24, 08, 3:47 a.m. – Permalink

• detritus

  It'll be interesting to see how Google manages its search responses over the next year or so, given how much they've relied on Wikipedia over the past couple of years to bulk out their results with something other than blog-spam and bot-mined crap.

  (I'm not really sure what 'bot-mined crap' is, I got carried away with pulp sci fi vernacular there)

  • sounds german– kelpie1/2

    "Fritz" also sounds german, as does "Von Snitchzel".– Spookytim2/2

  

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  Dog-earJul 24, 08, 3:51 a.m. – Permalink

• Spookytim

  I wonder if the Knolites will go on covert disinformation spreading missions over at Wikipedia. This could get nasty.

  Trolls should go mercenary. There's probably money in online disruption.

  • someone call 4chan, stat!– kelpie

  

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  Dog-earJul 24, 08, 3:54 a.m. – Permalink

• Spookytim

  If I went bot-mining and found crap, I'd be really pissed off.

  • Ooops, was meant to be a side note up there^.– Spookytim

  

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  Dog-earJul 24, 08, 3:56 a.m. – Permalink

• detritus

  You can still edit entries - you just need to sign-in with somethinglike a valid identity first. So, if you've got something genuine to add, I don't see why the sign-up process would offend you.

  Hold on.. is that a variant of 'if you've got nothing to hide, you shouldn't mind the surveillance cameras, identity cards, drug tests, phone-tapping and anal probing meted out by your friendly local governing hegemony'?

  • HAHAHA, but good point, I didn't realsie it was still open to peurile abuse ERRR I MEAN... Corrections.– Spookytim

  

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  Dog-earJul 24, 08, 3:56 a.m. – Permalink

• Mallmus

  Knol isn't all that great in my opinion - it all seems to be medical essays and people's scientific point of view - I couldn't find anything on 'web design', 'html', 'mySQL' or any popular web apps, 'word press', 'blogger', 'blogging', or anything =(

  At least with something like IMDB I can look up a movie, and then get more information by looking it up on Wikipedia - but nothing for 'Batman' on Knol...

  Anybody want to know about Syphilis, its featured on their home page: http://knol.google.com/k/hunter-…

  • Small steps, Mallmus.
    
    Small steps.– detritus1/3

    Sorry, went a bit 'Contact' there. It's a relatively new site, so it'll take time to get all the Pokemon characters, etc, in.– detritus2/3

    Hahahah @ Pokemon characters.– Spookytim3/3

  

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  Dog-earJul 24, 08, 3:59 a.m. – Permalink

• BaskerviIle

  I agree Mallmus, they have a long way to go in terms of building content, and it will take even longer with named authors.
  There isn't even an entry for 'internet' yet!
  

  

  

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  Dog-earJul 24, 08, 4:38 a.m. – Permalink

• Spookytim

  Get writing everyone! Come on! Knols don't write themselves you know!

  • Who's going to write the 'Wikipedia' knol and the "Knol" knol?– Spookytim

  

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  Dog-earJul 24, 08, 4:40 a.m. – Permalink

• trooper

  so expect the serps to jump around again just like when they implemented google books into the listings and called it the DEWEY update :(

  • What are the 'serps'?
    
    * Consults Knol. No entry listed. hmmm.– Spookytim

  

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  Dog-earJul 24, 08, 4:40 a.m. – Permalink

• BaskerviIle

  I'm going to write the Knol about Knoll the furniture manufacturer
  

  

  • The next post is genius. Don't overlook it.– Spookytim

  

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  Dog-earJul 24, 08, 4:43 a.m. – Permalink

• Spookytim

  If they had a bookmark facility like QBN's so that people can create personalised indexes of knol pages (Google please pay attention here) they should call it a wedge.

  A Knol wedge.

  I am a fucking Genius of sorts.

  • Genius is often overlooked.– Spookytim1/4

    and overhyped– BaskerviIle2/4

    i for one welcome my bot-mined crap leader! spooky..you are a genius...– exador13/4

    seriously tho..that actually is a pretty good idea i think...– exador14/4

  

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  Dog-earJul 24, 08, 4:48 a.m. – Permalink

• Mallmus

  I found an article about Oracle through the Twitter Search
  http://search.twitter.com/search…
  http://knol.google.com/k/aman-sh…
  But when I search Knol for 'oracle' or 'Oracle Certification' nothing shows up - I thought Google runs this thing, can't they even get it searching right?

  • You overlooked my genius.
    Just thought you should know.– Spookytim

  

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  Dog-earJul 24, 08, 4:50 a.m. – Permalink

• madirish

  this will become much, much stronger once they fold Digg into it... once they finalize that deal.

  also, not really convinced in any way that this will "kill Wikipedia"- google is *extremely* supportive of the organization and actually fosters development in it's alogorithms for the site.

  

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  Dog-earJul 24, 08, 5:26 a.m. – Permalink

• ultramodest

  no thanks

  

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  Dog-earJul 24, 08, 6:11 a.m. – Permalink

• Jnr_Madison

  Sounds like a name pablo would come up with.

  • sorry, I mean pedo pablo.– Jnr_Madison

  

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  Dog-earJul 24, 08, 6:13 a.m. – Permalink