[Search-l] Google Knol - A Wikipedia/Wikia/Mahalo killer?

[John McCormac]

Jimmy Wales wrote:
> John McCormac wrote:
> Everybody loves the "Jimmy Wales versus Google" story.  Wheee!

Well it certainly makes for good copy.

> But of course it is mostly nonsense.

Actually this is very different from Wikipedia. Wikipedia is, by its 
very nature, a collaborative work. The Google Knol is not or at least 
not as yet. In some respects, Google Knol seems like a great Tower of 
Babel encyclopedia with everyone being able to write an article. Google 
might know about search but do they know about information architecture?

>>Any updates on the Wikia search project as it is now almost halfway 
>>through December?
> 
> 
> On track, we are hard at work right now...
> 
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimbo_wales/2111271473/

Yeah I heard Dell was having a special offer. :)

Regards...jmcc
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