Sunday, February 17, 2008

RESPONSE: Google’s Answer to Wikipedia (Jenn)

http://www.technologyreview.com/Biztech/20065/

I agree with her that it’s interesting to see Google attempting to take over another party of the internet. I also agree that it isn’t going to work. First off, the author situation isn’t going to work out the way they planned. Wikipedia is so glorious because you can constantly get linked to more and more stuff. Authors are going to be competing and usually will only link their own content. Another, more important reason Knol isn’t going to fly is simply Wikipedia already has a strong hold. Companies do this all the time, they use their big name to come in and try to mimic another successful company. In all honesty, to people use Google docs over Microsoft word? No.

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