Comments on: Google Knol: Your Name Sucks http://elliottback.com/wp/google-knol-your-name-sucks/ Internet & Technology Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:01:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: RS http://elliottback.com/wp/google-knol-your-name-sucks/#comment-1075667 RS Mon, 17 Dec 2007 04:02:46 +0000 http://elliottback.com/wp/archives/2007/12/15/google-knol-your-name-sucks/#comment-1075667 Isn't Wikipedia unreliable enough? Now Google wants a new Wikipedia without even the little bit of editorial control that Wikipedia exerts? The New York Times article on Knol: "Google said that a main idea behind the project was to bring attention to authors who have expertise on a particular topic." Um, isn't that what Google search results are supposed to be doing? This is clearly an admission from Google that their SERPs are being constantly gamed by SEO firms, if they need a product like Knol to highlight what they think is real, expert info. Wikipedia, About, Google ... the point of all of them is to help people find information. If any of them were doing a particularly good job of it, you wouldn't see sites like findingDulcinea and Mahalo jumping in to fill that gaping hole. Maybe Google should concentrate more on providing relevant search results instead of just spewing the Web sites of companies who have big SEO budgets. Isn’t Wikipedia unreliable enough? Now Google wants a new Wikipedia without even the little bit of editorial control that Wikipedia exerts?

The New York Times article on Knol:
“Google said that a main idea behind the project was to bring attention to authors who have expertise on a particular topic.”

Um, isn’t that what Google search results are supposed to be doing? This is clearly an admission from Google that their SERPs are being constantly gamed by SEO firms, if they need a product like Knol to highlight what they think is real, expert info.

Wikipedia, About, Google … the point of all of them is to help people find information. If any of them were doing a particularly good job of it, you wouldn’t see sites like findingDulcinea and Mahalo jumping in to fill that gaping hole.

Maybe Google should concentrate more on providing relevant search results instead of just spewing the Web sites of companies who have big SEO budgets.

]]> By: Edward Richarson http://elliottback.com/wp/google-knol-your-name-sucks/#comment-1074703 Edward Richarson Sun, 16 Dec 2007 19:10:43 +0000 http://elliottback.com/wp/archives/2007/12/15/google-knol-your-name-sucks/#comment-1074703 The name Knol rules. Im going to name my kid that. There going to call him Know for short. That's off the hook. Thanx for the name Google. Knol Richarson will thank u when he is able to speak The name Knol rules. Im going to name my kid that. There going to call him Know for short. That’s off the hook. Thanx for the name Google. Knol Richarson will thank u when he is able to speak

]]> By: kevin gamble http://elliottback.com/wp/google-knol-your-name-sucks/#comment-1074504 kevin gamble Sun, 16 Dec 2007 17:18:27 +0000 http://elliottback.com/wp/archives/2007/12/15/google-knol-your-name-sucks/#comment-1074504 I don't know where this "sole writer" meme got started. There is nothing in Knol that suggests that these will be written in isolation. Think Google Docs and Jotspot... I don’t know where this “sole writer” meme got started. There is nothing in Knol that suggests that these will be written in isolation. Think Google Docs and Jotspot…

]]> By: Mark Moran http://elliottback.com/wp/google-knol-your-name-sucks/#comment-1072622 Mark Moran Sun, 16 Dec 2007 00:01:12 +0000 http://elliottback.com/wp/archives/2007/12/15/google-knol-your-name-sucks/#comment-1072622 Why is Google promoting a sole writer's viewpoint on a subject matter? Isn't the beauty of the Web that you can quickly access multiple sources of information about almost anything ? This project is one more acknowledgment (following on the heels of Yahoo's Search Assist) that search engines often fail to answer a user's question (85% of the time, according to Yahoo). Most users don't want to wade through more than the first five results, and, to Google's chagrin, Wikipedia is almost always one of those five. A wealth of search results has led to a poverty of attention paid to any one of them, and the best results, often on the second page, are never even read. This is what has given rise to the second-generation of human-powered search alternatives, such as findingDulcinea, Organized Wisdom, ChaCha, Mahalo, each of which in their own way distills the Internet through a filter of human judgment. Why is Google promoting a sole writer’s viewpoint on a subject matter? Isn’t the beauty of the Web that you can quickly access multiple sources of information about almost anything ? This project is one more acknowledgment (following on the heels of Yahoo’s Search Assist) that search engines often fail to answer a user’s question (85% of the time, according to Yahoo). Most users don’t want to wade through more than the first five results, and, to Google’s chagrin, Wikipedia is almost always one of those five. A wealth of search results has led to a poverty of attention paid to any one of them, and the best results, often on the second page, are never even read. This is what has given rise to the second-generation of human-powered search alternatives, such as findingDulcinea, Organized Wisdom, ChaCha, Mahalo, each of which in their own way distills the Internet through a filter of human judgment.

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