My Three initial reactions to Knol Google Competing with it’s Partners Articles can be monetized in a revenue share arrangement where Google and the authors share income derived from articles. It’s like Wikipedia in that articles can be edited by others – but changes need to be approved by the authors of the articles. So today Google finally opened up and launched Launched Knol (it’s been coming for a while) a place where people can publish ‘authoritative articles about specific topics’. on Rocknerd v3.Is Google’s Knol an attack on Wikipedia or Could it hurt Smaller Publishers like bloggers more?
GOOGLE KILLED SQUIDOO ARCHIVE
Rocknerd » Blog Archive » Interview: the KLF’s James Cauty.Peter Harding, SP4 on Dave Bird, R.I.P.Katherine Pearson on Wikipedia, right, but on the Blockchain.Llwy-ar-lawr on Wikia kills Uncyclopedia.London readers: there’s a Freebase meetup at the Yorkshire Grey pub in Holborn from 6:30pm. The key point is that in a public participatory content production project, people are all your problems and this is not susceptible to quick fixes, technical or social. At the moment Freebase’s Alexa rank is about 47,000 socially it sounds like Wikipedia in 2002. The other thing we rambled about was the social structure of the thing. That way we can have it and they can have it and everyone can have it. The really good thing you can do is: if you’re getting someone to release a bunch of data, do your damnedest to get it under CC-by or public domain.
GOOGLE KILLED SQUIDOO FREE
I most strongly urge you to watch this.Īdvancing Freebase is in line with Wikimedia goals, as it’s useful free content (and the dumps work).
I didn’t think it was way cool until she showed me David Huynh’s Freebase Parallax demo video. The differences from Google Base is that (a) you can do mashups of every data table with every other data table (b) they don’t want your private data (unless you want your daily calorie counts available forever under CC-by). (Spam is fine if it’s structured data!) The differences from Wikimedia are that (a) it’s all CC-by (b) it’s run by a company, not by a charity. We hung out with the geeks and drank to excess on Sunday (Kirrily says she drank to “sufficient”), so today we’ve been geeking Freebase and Wikipedia and social content creation and so forth.įreebase is a collection of structured data, with little or no notability barrier. Her office is being remodelled, so decided to work from home in London for a week. I’m sitting here with my dear friend Kirrily Robert of Freebase. Leaving the editors to battle it out to collaboratively create the one article on a topic appears to have worked to give readers the simple quick reference site they actually want to use. One good resource kills ten mediocre resources. Tell you what, the main value of Cuil is to explain to the kids how bad search engines were before Google got it right. It’s like metasearch engines that gave you results from ten bad pre-Google search engines in the hope you might find a damn thing, when the real answer was one search engine that didn’t suck. If readers wanted ten articles on one topic, they’d just click the first ten Google hits. It also expressly tries for good writing, unlike Wikipedia. Citizendium is the only one that springs to mind - CZ is very reader-oriented, and slowly accumulating lots of good stuff. I’ve seen very few Wikipedia replacements or even forks that aim primarily at creating a better resource for the reader, and leave the rest to happen. Writers are important, but way less so than the readers. Wikipedia, however, is popular because it’s what readers want. There’s hardly a “Wikipedia replacement” that hasn’t started from trying to make a welcoming environment for authors. (In fairness, Google has never pushed Knol as a Wikipedia killer that’s entirely a media-created synthetic controversy.) I mean, I was incredibly impressed when I first joined Wikipedia in early 2004 that it was #500. Wikipedia is #8 on Alexa, Squidoo is #431, Helium is #4999 and only Google knows how well Knol is actually doing. Knol is Google trying to recreate Squidoo or Helium, not an encyclopedia.
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