Google Knol: Competitors Respond & Time To Limit The Aggregators? Danny Sullivan, Search Engine Land (Dec 17)
Google Knol has provoked a lot of comment. In this article, Danny Sullivan comments on the reaction of the web content centres Google seems to be targetting.
Knol, it seems, is most like Squidoo - so much so that Squidoo was able to take the example of insomnia that Google provided and reproduce it in Squidoo. According to Sullivan - "Creating that page really highlights how bizarre the Google Knol move is, at least on the face of what Google says versus how it acts."
Mahalo is developing into a destination content centre, which means it will be competing with Wikipedia and with Knol.
Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales thought Knol looked like Yahoo Answers. No one else seems to be buying that.
Sullivan asks whether "we really need a dozen or more Wikipedia clones?" And, "Seriously -- do we really need Google to be competiting against other sites in its own search listings?"
Good questions.
Posted by Gwen at December 18, 2007 02:29 AM