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Re: Google Knol starting to smell spammy

prelaunchinsider — Sun, 17 May 2009 01:30:00 -0000

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

Re: Google Knol starting to smell spammy

Chris — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:50:18 -0000

Nice blog

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tdemirtas — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:02:24 -0000

thank u

Re: Google Knol starting to smell spammy

digitalbiographer — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:16:48 -0000

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.

Re: Google Knol starting to smell spammy

jake_awc — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:50:33 -0000

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?

Re: Google Knol starting to smell spammy

LouCypher — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:49:00 -0000

Yes, they are :-/

Re: Google Knol starting to smell spammy

Cokeface — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 06:52:07 -0000

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.

Re: Google Knol starting to smell spammy

Venkatakrishna — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 04:51:36 -0000

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

Re: Google Knol starting to smell spammy

Matt — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:46:04 -0000

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?