In a not very innovative move Google is going to try to copy Wikipedia's shtick with a soup-to-nuts, online, user-generated encyclopedia of all human knowledge dubbed Knol that's currently being beta tested by a reportedly small group of invitees. Contributors, who are supposed to sign their pieces, not be anonymous like Wikipedia - a good thing - will be able to monetize their individually written, Creative Commons-licensed articles with ads, sharing the revenues with Google. Google will provide the tools and rank entries. Fact checking will supposedly be left to the readers - (who will go to the library and look things up in a book?). Wikipedia currently has 8.2 million articles written in 200 languages. Tit for tat, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has been working on a for-profit Wikia search engine due out any minute now.
Gerardo Pardo-Castellote
wrote: Regarding the
previous comment about
"TCP not lining up a
message on one connection
after a file transfer on
another connection." and
the "information in the
article not be...
Brigdson Smith wrote:
remember, Eric Schmidt
was Schwartz's first boss
at Sun - something tells
me if he left Sun, it'd
take four minutes for him
to end up to Google.
Don Dodge wrote: D Cheng,
Of course in-house
systems go down. What I
am saying is that our
psychological need for
control makes us hold
onto teh traditional ways
of doing things.
When systems go down we
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