Google doing a Wikipedia, Squidoo and Mahalo?
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TechRepublic
Google has a clear vision. To index the whole information of the world and make it accessible universally. It also has another strategy, that of never owning content but only indexing them. Perhaps Google has been very ardent about it ever since Yahoo started facing bad times after its transition into more of a media company.
Now, with project Knol, Google seems to be following the social path to knowledge creation. So far, its algorithms have been mining the net for information. But with the net burgeoning with content, perhaps a refined approach is the only way that relevance can be truly achieved.
With Knol, Google seeks to get experts in various matters to share their knowledge and get rewarded for it ( if they agree to have ads placed along side their articles that is). So, apart from the fact that they are highlighting authors, what makes this effort anymore better than Wikipedia. Also, social bookmarking sites can also add this as a new feature to let users create authoritative articles. Not to forget that Mahalo, a human powered search engine already operates by human crafting of relevant search results.
Perhaps this is just another venture for Google, being hyped out of proportion. After all, their core business does not in any way hinge on getting a knowledge project up and running. It will be interesting what path this project takes. Will it ever reach the scale and growth of Wikipedia? Perhaps if Google automates great summarization, like the SenseBot engine, that can collate and create articles from several resources.
Now, with project Knol, Google seems to be following the social path to knowledge creation. So far, its algorithms have been mining the net for information. But with the net burgeoning with content, perhaps a refined approach is the only way that relevance can be truly achieved.
With Knol, Google seeks to get experts in various matters to share their knowledge and get rewarded for it ( if they agree to have ads placed along side their articles that is). So, apart from the fact that they are highlighting authors, what makes this effort anymore better than Wikipedia. Also, social bookmarking sites can also add this as a new feature to let users create authoritative articles. Not to forget that Mahalo, a human powered search engine already operates by human crafting of relevant search results.
Perhaps this is just another venture for Google, being hyped out of proportion. After all, their core business does not in any way hinge on getting a knowledge project up and running. It will be interesting what path this project takes. Will it ever reach the scale and growth of Wikipedia? Perhaps if Google automates great summarization, like the SenseBot engine, that can collate and create articles from several resources.
