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Re:3 reasons why Knol will beat Wikipedia by vaksel on Friday July 25, 2008 @12:43PM (#256807)
there is only one reason it'll beat knol...EVERYONE knows that wikipedia is where you go for info on the web. Most people now don't search for "______", they now search for "_____ wiki" to avoid the ad infested sites.

Knol is just another case of Google copy pasting other people's products, w/o real care if it succeeds or not. If it does? GREAT! If it doesn't? Well at least we managed to get 20,000,000 page views and got us $500,000 more in ad revenue

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Re:3 reasons why Knol will beat Wikipedia by maien on Friday July 25, 2008 @06:19PM (#257163)
exactly. Now when people are confused about something, they will go to wiki for validation, even they know it is not 100%. but people do trust it.

If google is able to change the habit to 'xxxx knol', i think google can do anything on the web.

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