Aaron “SEO Book” Wall has an awesome article about Google’s new Knol service.
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Interesting…time to check it out, thanks
I’ve never heard of Knol before today. Thanks for sharing!
wow a tweet linking to a blog post the size of a tweet linking to someone else’s blog post. i love shoemoney!
Knol is already a loser by keeping it open just for U.S. people.. What the hell would the rest of the world do?
And now, get ready to see some copied content getting well indexed in Google through Knols!
Doesn’t surprise me that they favor there own sites. Who wouldn’t? Seems like a neat idea though.
I did a knol on Friday… did the whole verification thing and all including my bio stuff. Trying to work on it to see what kind of traffic we might be able to get with the knol’s?
I doubt that Knol will ever be as great as Wikipedia. Although I do like the ad sharing thing they got going
Currently it just looks like a copy-paste work
hope it comes out a success in future
i like the part where he attacks google “Google Pays Thieves” hahaha
Wow, they are really ranking it higher… Now we’ll see knol as the nr 1 result, wikipedia as the nr 2 result, and if you’re lucky you’ll be in the top 10 still.
Wow this is awesome that Google no longer cares about the integrity of the content anymore but rather where it is hosted. Spam-Land here we come.
Shoe did a post on it earlier. It can be found at
http://www.shoemoney.com/2008/07/24/knol-knol-knol-my-boat/
I’m not really surprised to be honest…
Shoe just posted an article about it also few days ago
I agree this is limiting but I’m pretty sure it will be rolled out to other countries. They will just be kept separate so it is a greater benefit to Google.
who said it’s only for US ppl ? i’m not from US and i could log in and access the write new content option
I agree, that comment is right on target. Google doesn’t follow the same rules from day to day.
All outbound links are nofollow so it might not help as much.
I see this as another example of Google believing they are the Internet and can do and take whatever they want if it benefits them. It will be interesting to see how it plays out. I think this is going to bite them in the rear.
It would be interesting to see what countries Google is allowing to publish from and which it was not.
i also agree, that google maybe biting off more than they can chew here.
When sites publishing blatently stolen content are ignored by the big g it makes you wonder…
Awesome article. It won’t be long before Knol takes off.
Great article, thanks for the heads-up Shoe!
This is why content is king , if your content is just spam and MFA you wont be in top 10 , this is what google trying to do
all yahoo answers links are nofollow too and yet it’s HUGE
The ad sharing does look like it could be pretty cool, but I’m not convinced that you would get any more impressions from Knol than you would if you posted an article on your own site.
I disagree, Aaron’s article seems to be pointing out that a knol article with exactly the same content as yours is going to rank higher; that is to say that Google is favoring the knol content in it’s ranking algorithms.
Interesting post by Aaron on how well knol pages are ranking even for duplicate content – copyright issues aside – I wonder if these rankings will stick. Game on spammers.
It will be interesting to see how Google handles DMCA complaints against knols. Just ignore them?
Have you ever noticed that the page you wrote is not officially published on the web? Because you have to verify your name. And for that you have to be from the US only..
Actually a feeling comes into my mind that if the same trend is followed by Google, then the biggest MFA site builder is Google itself in future..
Thanks for the heads up- I’ve heard a lot about this lately- this Knol is being mentioned everywhere!
Is it any surprise that Google favors its own content? If you were google wouldn’t you do the same? I know I would. Google’s aim is to provide relevant search results, they probably see knol as a trusted information source and gave it a higher level of trust in the algo.
Good article. Thanks, shoe
Wow, This will definitely test their “don’t be evil” rule. If Google doesn’t filter out their own duplicate content then they fail.
Good read, thanks for the link.
good article. I have been commenting for awhile that this type of favoritism was a risk for Google. as I said in January, Google will overreach and then decline.
Google does everything big. You really think Knol won’t be a home run?
Yeah, time to start using live. :-/
lol start using live?
seen this? cuil.com
thanks for sharing that link pal.
fyi: Adwords lets you direct traffic to Knol pages!
Probably will have the same thing as WikiPedia. They’ll have their own versions eventually.
Has anybody out there gotten their Knol to rank yet?
i think Aaron Wall has a good shot and getting his seo articles to rank he’s a genius but really dull so he might need a little help on making his articles a little bit more fun to read
Interesting! Knol is a very good new service,Thanks J.
Maybe they need to streamline the DMCA process.
I linked to that post the day before you did
Google isn’t suited to providing content, it should just index it.
Thanks for letting me know about Knol. I will have to check it out