Wiki launch google killer?
A few weeks after goolge announce their wikipedia killer Google knol Wikipedia founder jimmy Wales announces the launch of a new search engine.
Be nice to see this project succeed but i think google will win the battle for both search and online encyclopedia 
Anyone, all you nasty spammers have a new site to influence from the 7th of jan- at least let it get off the ground before you kill it!
December 28th, 2007 at 5:13 pm
I don’t see Knol as wikipedia killer. I think it will attract less contributors and in the end it will evolve in an one-way medium. Authoritative articles written by few and read by many.
December 29th, 2007 at 10:27 am
Would be great if it turned out be like that but i have my doubts, especially when i see google saying…
“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.”
Same easily manipulated algo they use for search results, only now lots of ordinary users will mistakenly believe these articles to be 100% accurate and have some creditably.I can see them getting sued, or at least a media backlash within a few weeks without some kind of editorial policy