zedomax.com » discretion http://zedomax.com/blog Zedomax - The DIY, HOWTO, Mod, Hacks, Gadgets, and Tech Blog! Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:30:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Knols Project Followup – Google’s Knol Project reminds me of a Paid Wiki http://zedomax.com/blog/2007/12/14/knols-project-followup-googles-knol-project-reminds-me-of-a-paid-wiki/ http://zedomax.com/blog/2007/12/14/knols-project-followup-googles-knol-project-reminds-me-of-a-paid-wiki/#comments Fri, 14 Dec 2007 09:23:28 +0000 max http://zedomax.com/blog/2007/12/14/knols-project-followup-googles-knol-project-reminds-me-of-a-paid-wiki/ Great thing that Google has come up with the Knols Project. (I think it’s pronounced “nol’s project” right?) It’s totally like the Million Dollar Wiki concept except they have more money and power to get “authoratative” writers on their content.

How is it like a paid wiki?

Well, Google offer revenue sharing as stated in their blog:

At the discretion of the author, a knol may include ads. If an author chooses to include ads, Google will provide the author with substantial revenue share from the proceeds of those ads.

Wow, that IS a paid wiki, just like the QuarterWiki and the One Buck Wiki. The only difference is that you don’t have to pay for pages in the beginning. I believe this is due to Google’s enourmous status as an Internet Giant with billions of dollars to spend on moderators, developers, and what not. We wish we could too but no we have to charge a small fee for each page.

Plus, there’s “one author” per page, just like the paid wikis.  Google might have ripped off those ideas…

Regardless, this is a definite sign that Wikis are going to start taking over the world. (and Google will try to take over the world, literally…)

Knols Project Followup - Google’s Knol Project reminds me of a Paid Wiki

We encourage you to try out the new Knols Project if you do get an invitation and when they launch, we strongly suggest you take advantage of Google’s offer of revenue sharing.
(In case you can’t get an invitation and while you wait, you can take advantage of 100% revenue stream on the QuarterWiki, One Buck Wiki, or the Five Dollar Wiki.)

Is Google going too far? Go vote at TechCrunch!

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]]> http://zedomax.com/blog/2007/12/14/knols-project-followup-googles-knol-project-reminds-me-of-a-paid-wiki/feed/ 0 Knols Project – Google is trying to compete with Wikipedia! http://zedomax.com/blog/2007/12/13/knols-project-google-is-trying-to-compete-with-wikipedia/ http://zedomax.com/blog/2007/12/13/knols-project-google-is-trying-to-compete-with-wikipedia/#comments Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:41:31 +0000 max http://zedomax.com/blog/2007/12/13/knols-project-google-is-trying-to-compete-with-wikipedia/ Google is trying to compete with Wikipedia with its new Knols Project. We don’t know how successful it will be as we have seen Google Video and Youtube before.

But one thing is for sure, Google is trying to get into the Wiki business. (Knol Project is very similar to our QuarterWiki, OneBuckWiki, EntreWiki, FiveDollarWiki, and other wikis that we are developing right now.)

The interface does look pretty neat from the screenshot here:

Knols Project - Google’s new Wikipedia

What amazes us is that we are trying to build the largest commercialized Wiki with our new QuarterWiki but Google is also making similar site. We don’t intend to compete with Google of course, but we think we are going in the right direction if the Big Guy thinks so too.

You can get to the new Knols Project login by going here:

https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=knol

But unless you got an invite, you can’t access it. Does anyone want to give us an invite? We’d like to incorporate Knols’ features on our paid wiki sites before Knols’ launch date. Lol…we are being too honest here huh?

Here’s what the Google Knol Project is briefly about:

Knols will include strong community tools. People will be able to submit comments, questions, edits, additional content, and so on. Anyone will be able to rate a knol or write a review of it. Knols will also include references and links to additional information. At the discretion of the author, a knol may include ads. If an author chooses to include ads, Google will provide the author with substantial revenue share from the proceeds of those ads.

Once testing is completed, participation in knols will be completely open, and we cannot expect that all of them will be of high quality. Our job in Search Quality will be to rank the knols appropriately when they appear in Google search results. We are quite experienced with ranking web pages, and we feel confident that we will be up to the challenge. We are very excited by the potential to substantially increase the dissemination of knowledge.

We do not want to build a walled garden of content; we want to disseminate it as widely as possible. Google will not ask for any exclusivity on any of this content and will make that content available to any other search engine.

As always, a picture is worth a thousands words, so an example of a knol is below (click on the image twice to see the page in full). The main content is real, and we encourage you to read it (you may sleep better afterwards!), but most of the meta-data — like reviews, ratings, and comments — are not real, because, of course, this has not been in the public eye as yet. Again, this is a preliminary version.

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