Re:Google Knol six months later
by larryfreeman on Tuesday January 20, 2009 @02:37AM
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The key point is the rate of growth. Knol reached 100,000 articles in 6 months and now gets over 140K unique visitors a month. While that's small potatoes for Google, that's pretty good as a measure of a trend.
I work at HubPages, a start up that's similar to Google Knol. From my view, the idea of crowdsourced articles is really taking off. We're getting over 9.4M unique visitors a month at HubPages.
If Google can build a community around knol, it will really be a force. That, after all, is the secret sauce behind Wikipedia: its enthusiastic core, community.
I work at HubPages, a start up that's similar to Google Knol. From my view, the idea of crowdsourced articles is really taking off. We're getting over 9.4M unique visitors a month at HubPages.
If Google can build a community around knol, it will really be a force. That, after all, is the secret sauce behind Wikipedia: its enthusiastic core, community.