Google Knol is Evil
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Google Knol is Evil
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Re: Google Knol is Evil
#2I don't understand the argument. It's google's search engine, if they want to rank certain things higher, why not?
If people don't like the result content, they'll go to the competition!
Re: Google Knol is Evil
#3I don't understand the argument. It's google's search engine, if they want to rank certain things higher, why not? If people don't like the result content, they'll go to the competition!
I don't understand the argument. It's Microsoft's operating system, if they want to pre-install certain apps, why not?
Google's heading in the same direction as MS. They'll probably end up in the same court room in Washington DC few years from now.
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#4If they don't get the issue of Knol pagerank sorted out soon, they are going to be hit with a massive anti trust lawsuit. And they are going to lose.
I'm curious as to why everyone is so surprised that this is happening though. It already worked like this with blogs hosted through Blogspot and websites hosted through Google Pages.
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#5I don't understand the argument. It's google's search engine, if they want to rank certain things higher, why not? If people don't like the result content, they'll go to the competition!
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#6I don't understand the argument. It's google's search engine, if they want to rank certain things higher, why not? If people don't like the result content, they'll go to the competition!
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#7I don't understand the argument. It's google's search engine, if they want to rank certain things higher, why not? If people don't like the result content, they'll go to the competition!
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#8I don't understand the argument. It's google's search engine, if they want to rank certain things higher, why not? If people don't like the result content, they'll go to the competition!
The problem is that it's anti-competitive. If Google owns the search business (and they do, more or less), they can drive other companies out of business by tweaking their listings - even companies that have nothing to do with search. What if your local phone company was owned by Verizon, and they "accidentally" misprinted phone numbers of Sprint customers? Or if the supplier of 70% of the world's cars made it harder for its competition's cars to get filled up with gas? Everyone loses except the monopoly.
You're right that ultimately, you could get a different phone book (or different search engine). But there isn't really a great search alternative right now. Hopefully that will change soon.
Re: Google Knol is Evil
#9This is so stupid. Pagerank is based on links, Knol has a lot of links, therefore it has good pagerank. Why is that evil?
Update: At the moment this comment is moderated -2, and the factually incorrect reply is +4. Nice.
Re: Google Knol is Evil
#10If they don't get the issue of Knol pagerank sorted out soon, they are going to be hit with a massive anti trust lawsuit. And they are going to lose. I'm curious as to why everyone is so surprised that this is happening though. It already worked like this with blogs hosted through Blogspot and websites hosted through Google Pages.
Problem is that Google's not artificially proppingp those blogs and they're not hosting ads by default and collecting revenue from them. Also, when you create a blog, you own the content.. not so with Knol.