Google launches Knol

[mit]

After several months of testing, Google has finally launched the knowledge-sharing site called Knolwhere people can share their opinions and views about a specific topic like in Wikipedia.

[masynee]

Great to know. Thanks.

[haga]

it's useful for author.

[Futo]

A lot of people have been looking forward to this hope it lives up to expectations.

[Luckyman]

At present, the wikipedia is the major site sharing knowledge and we have to wait and watch how effective the new knol will be as against the wikipedia?

[wdillsmith]

I looked into this yesterday. The big difference is at Knol there can be more than one article on the same subject. Knol is going to use some kind of voting system to determine which ones gets shown first. So there could be multiple experts trying to duke it out for top placement. There's no chance that system will get abused....

[C.Whyte]

I wonder how this will compare against the almighty Wikipedia?

[zeruel]

Originally Posted by C.Whyte

I wonder how this will compare against the almighty Wikipedia?

Well wikipedia is wikipedia... We'll see how will this new site compete with it in time...

[StarLab]

It'll be interesting to see which comes up first in results when searching for something.

Seems most things you search for these days, you find Wikipedia is usually in the top results.

[nasty.web]

Originally Posted by StarLab

It'll be interesting to see which comes up first in results when searching for something.

Seems most things you search for these days, you find Wikipedia is usually in the top results.

Intriguing Aaron's post about that: http://www.seobook.com/google-knol

[khat]

knol is handled by google, i guess google will do their best to make it popular.

[Copybuild]

Originally Posted by mit

After several months of testing, Google has finally launched the knowledge-sharing site called Knolwhere people can share their opinions and views about a specific topic like in Wikipedia.

Wikipedia is better more information and knol after I look at it I just wanna leave google need to hire someone to design it for them!

[tom.schavo]

I have already started using this knol from google. Its easy and i have submitted 3 articles in it. But it would take time for it to grow into larger database.

[heatman07]

I noticed that most of the infos are health related? How come?

[FastSubmitArticles]

It's very interesting. I'm hoping to see if they can come up with something different from wiki. Wiki is still the most useful info site for me now.

[aira]

well Google is challenging wikipedia with their new service called "Knol" as a new article publishing place. The difference between these two is Knol doesn't allow anonymous authors. Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land even called it a Wikipedia with Moderation

[olman]

Like Wikipedia, Knol is NoFollow, so it won't help you in SERPs. But, I think it's a great way to get some natural vis itorsfor keywords that you couldn't hope to rank for without it. For instance, you might not be able to rank for KW of "online computer help", for example, but you might be able to write an awesome knol which will be towards the top, and direct visitors to you site.

[my_misyel]

Am started using Knol and still learning its environment

[potchie]

iam start learning how this google knol help me.. any other info guys?

[Sonal]

Hi, It is really nice to share with us about Google knol.