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Google Knol starting to smell spammy

Started by Duncan Riley · 11 months ago

Google launched its Wikipedia competitor Google Knol last week, but one week later it is starting to look more like Blogger meets Ezine Articles, rather than the resource rich destination Google was hoping for.

Knol contributors have split into distinct groups. Where as some people ... Continue reading »

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  • Cokeface

    11 months ago

    The Brock Lesnar article by that person who made the Wordpress one was lifted directly from Wikipedia. Do your part and rate it one star since that's the minimum. I'd suspect the other ones are taken straight from it too.
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  • LouCypher

    11 months ago

    Yes, they are :-/
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  • Jake

    11 months ago

    I'd guess a good majority of articles will probably be scraped from Wiki. Would Wiki's license have allowed Knol to preload some of their data?
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  • Venkatakrishna

    11 months ago

    Gogle may find it difficult to separate authoritative content from spam. Ratings may help to some extent.
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  • Matt

    11 months ago

    And the world is surprised, oh wait does the rest of the world actually know about Knol or is this really just another one of those things that bloggers jump onto and basically turn to crap because of all the MLM and associated spammy activities?
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  • Digital Biographer

    11 months ago

    I NOTICED TWO interesting phenomena yesterday - the first was that on one of my Google Knols about learning Russian, a link under the heading “Duplicate Content on the Web” appreared, which highlighted the fact that an article I had added to Google Knol was “75% similar” to content inside a PDF file on one of my web sites that I had allowed Google’s earch engine to spider.

    So Knol does have the ability to spot duplicate content, and flag it up. If you look at a Digg article in Knol
    [ http://knol.google.com/k/derek-slenk/diggcom/16... ] which is in fact a straight lift from Wikipedia, you can see the following to the right:

    Similar Content on the Web
    medlibrary.org 100%
    wikipedia.org 100%
    w2n.net 99%

    Whether Google's going to penalise such plagiarism or theft by demoting search results, I can't say - but at least it shows the issue of recognising duplication and textual analysis is built in from the start.

    THE OTHER FACT was someone joining my network at KnolRoll who has written a guide called The Internet Marketers Report on How to make money Writing Knols with The Knol™ Project. Note the use of Trademark™ to add credibility. The biography leads to the inevtiable ‘long copy’ sales page with a special offer for the first 100 people to respond,
    and yes it’s now only $29.99.. you can guess the rest - act now before it's too late...

    I think Google Knol will have some big issues to deal with in the future.
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  • Köpek

    5 months ago

    thank u
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  • Chris

    3 months ago

    Nice blog
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  • mlm prelaunch

    1 month ago

    Just some thought provoking attitude. The site remains to be seen and let's see what it will look like after...
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