Comments on: New Knol developments

By: noshin

noshin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:49:26 +0000

If I see your answer from an other angle that I have a country domain (.co.uk) but I want this site for Australia viewers only. Is it possible?

what would be the best way in both cases (yes or no)

By: Loi Scellier

Loi Scellier — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:06:32 +0000

I have watch the video about Arabic ,i’m from an arabic contry and i think yes knol may be a good way to give us more and rich arabic content in the web because arabaic is a nice and rich language.i have test knol it give a new concept for wikipedia.

By: Narayana Rao K.V.S.S.

Narayana Rao K.V.S.S. — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 08:54:19 +0000

Even when google is not giving any preference to knols, knol platform is doing well compared to other article platforms where voluntary contributions from authors without any editing is hosted. Many people are trying to write negative things about knol with vested motives. As knol becomes successful some web sites and blogs may lose their business as a part of creative destruction and naturally such agents are trying their best to write negative views about knol. There are many students and others who are happy with the content available on knol and there are many authors who are registering on knol everyday. In many subjects, the content hosted on knol is more relevant from the subject point of view compared to Wikipedia. Anyway, there cannot be only one online source for knowledge. There are competing view points in every subject and there are competing authors in the way they present the knowledge and google knol has a purpose to support both these categories of authors and provide information to the society.

By: Jonathan Hochman

Jonathan Hochman — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:49:42 +0000

Nofollow is a recommendation, not a contract. I hope that search engines disregard nofollow whenever doing so would improve their search results.

I doubt that Wikipedia would ever give a class of users the right to dofollow links. However, there is another possible approach. Every article is rated one of the following: Featured, A, Good, B, C, Start, Stub, Unrated. Articles of Good quality or better have been independently reviewed. Spam is unlikely to last more than a few minutes in such articles. If a search engine wanted to extract signal from Wikipedia links, they could disregard nofollow on the persistent links in quality articles.

By: Sunil

Sunil — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:58:50 +0000

I don’t know why Google fears some comments and what “others might think”, Knol has some truly great information from really knowledgeable people, i think Google is deliberately trying to not include knol in the search in fear of backlash.

It does not make sense, do no evil, right, its really a pity that not many people know how truly great information is out there in knol.

By: Seo London

Seo London — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 13:34:55 +0000

Knol is not managed well it don’t look like a Google Project its is not good and it doesn’t deserve PR 7 at all.

By: Flir

Flir — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:51:01 +0000

The reason there’s not much Arabic online is because any time someone from this part of the world states something that sounds like an original idea or opinion that goes against established authority, they get thrown in jail or beheaded.

ESPECIALLY IN EGYPT!

By: Dave (Original)

Dave (Original) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:02:06 +0000

Nathan, I hear it’s over 20% and I bet a large percentage of those think UFO = Spaceship

By: BetterRankings.com

BetterRankings.com — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:42:35 +0000

Well, I have not seen any knoll page rank for any competitive keywords, so yhea I would pretty much say that it has been debunked.

By: Nathan Zeldes

Nathan Zeldes — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:42:00 +0000

It’s rare that a spurious idea gets formally “completely debunked” – as I recall there are over 10% of Americans who doubt NASA had put men on the moon (and, I’m glad to note, there is a long knol debunking their doubts).

Still, well done promoting the truth with the openness we expect from Google.