Friday, July 25th 2008
Google Knol Opens to Public, Article Authors Entitled to Revenue Share
Touted as Google's answer to Wikipedia, the current most sought after online information resource, The Knol opens to public. Knols are authoritative articles about specific topics, written by people who know about those subjects. Today, Google is making Knol available to everyone.
Unlike Wikipedia being based on a MediaWiki system where users cen edit pretty much every article, and in some cases even abuse the system, Knol's approach includes that the author of an article maintains control over changes to it, the author can accept or reject changes before they become visible to public.
Knols include strong community tools which allow for many modes of interaction between readers and authors. People can submit comments, rate, or write a review of a knol. At the discretion of the author, a knol may include ads from our AdSense program. If an author chooses to include ads, Google will provide the author with a revenue share from the proceeds of those ad placements.
Here's another URL worth keeping handy: knol.google.com
Source:
Official Google Blog
Unlike Wikipedia being based on a MediaWiki system where users cen edit pretty much every article, and in some cases even abuse the system, Knol's approach includes that the author of an article maintains control over changes to it, the author can accept or reject changes before they become visible to public.
Knols include strong community tools which allow for many modes of interaction between readers and authors. People can submit comments, rate, or write a review of a knol. At the discretion of the author, a knol may include ads from our AdSense program. If an author chooses to include ads, Google will provide the author with a revenue share from the proceeds of those ad placements.
Here's another URL worth keeping handy: knol.google.com
13 Comments on Google Knol Opens to Public, Article Authors Entitled to Revenue Share
Better article = more hits = more expensive ad-space (not size AFAIK) = more revenue for you. Authors will put in a whole lot of work and churn out better articles than those on Wikipedia....with the exception of Google Answers. It was a flop. You had to pay to get answered by 'experts'. Yahoo Answers beat it and took a community approach to the whole thing.
On Wikipedia instead, good articles are written by good writers...without earnings....and more people can add/correct somethings to different articles. Result: more articles and freedom of thought..
Thats IMHO :)
[Sorry for my english]
Coz my english is bad i make an example:
Article: "iPhone is the best thing on the market"
Click\Thumbs UP: 999.999.999.999,1
And the author will become rich for having write a stupid article, but stupid people are lot...
Got it? [sorry for my english....again...]