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RE: Google Knol - Yup, it's a Wikipedia killer
Unfortunately, it gives the whole thing back to a supposedly more reliable "higher authority: to determine what is more accurate. In this case, whoever the GoG (Gods of Google) think is "reliable" gets heard.

Google wouldn't weight things that way? Why not? Google people haven't been bashful at expressing their own particular political opinions. Nor have they been hesitant at cooperating in erecting the "Great Firewall of China", to help the ChiCom regime censor web content.

There is NO guarantee that these two things couldn't be combined to give a bias to the coverage of Google Knol.

To give one possible (probable?) example; something like Glowbull Warming, where according to the major media and Al Gore there is no longer any debate POSSIBLE...except that the American Physical Society had recently stated that this is NOT the case, and that there is still a lot of SCIENTIFIC debate going on.

In short, I would rather have a no-holds barred mud-wrestle between various points of view from whatever source under a "caveat emptor" regime, than trust a corporate entity to "sanitize" and present what THEY determine to be the acceptable, orthodox view on possibly controversial topics.
Posted by: RadioActive Chief   Posted on: 07/28/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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If it's correct accountablity does not matter  SuperX3 | 07/28/08
But how does a reader know if it's correct?  Palmetto | 07/28/08
Armchair Experts  PowerMan2008 | 07/28/08
Great for opinions, but what about facts?  ajole | 07/28/08
Chocolate milk...  ElCondor11 | 07/28/08
Just because somebody with a lot of paper says it  deowll | 07/28/08
Just because somebody with a lot of paper...  portable@... | 07/29/08
Orson Wells and the Mars Invasion  eddie2go | 07/28/08
Accountability DOES matter  tsukrn@... | 07/28/08
RE: Google Knol - Yup, it's a Wikipedia killer  Balazs.Szemes | 07/28/08
WHAT?  ajole | 07/28/08
RE: Google Knol - Yup, it's a Wikipedia killer  RadioActive Chief | 07/28/08
"American Physical Society had recently stated that this is NOT the case"  Chi Stan | 07/28/08
RE: Google Knol - Yup, it's a Wikipedia killer  jantakke@... | 07/28/08
RE: Google Knol - Yup, it's a Wikipedia killer  putchavn | 07/28/08
Why, Christopher, should Knol - be a 'Wikipedia killer' -  mhenriday | 07/28/08
Agree  Popoyd | 07/28/08
The Britannica Model  dave.leigh@... | 07/28/08
RE: Google Knol - Yup, it's a Wikipedia killer  Scaramoosh | 07/28/08
References are tricky too  Popoyd | 07/28/08
Yes References can be tricky too  Scaramoosh | 07/29/08
Bad URL  Scaramoosh | 07/29/08
Creationism?  Popoyd | 07/28/08
"We pay you to use our service",  LBiege | 07/28/08
Knol isn't more accountable; it's more Web 1.0  Nihiltres | 07/28/08
Trying it does make a difference  Popoyd | 07/28/08
Ah, so they're both worthless.  Palmetto | 07/28/08
Good for a starting point...  Popoyd | 07/28/08
RE: Google Knol - Yup, it's a Wikipedia killer  jimmanis | 07/28/08
RE: Google Knol - Yup, it's a Wikipedia killer  lmsweetapple | 07/28/08
Ah, but the IDEA caught on.  dave.leigh@... | 07/28/08
RE: Google Knol - Yup, it's a Wikipedia killer  deowll | 07/28/08
RE: Google Knol - Yup, it's a Wikipedia killer  goooodwinnn | 07/28/08
Example is not fair  Pationl | 07/28/08
RE: Monckton's article in APS Newsletter  Scaramoosh | 07/29/08
RE: Google Knol - Yup, it's a Wikipedia killer  LatitudeU | 07/30/08
RE: Google Knol - Yup, it's a Wikipedia killer  LatitudeU | 07/30/08
Right on Target  David Blomstrom | 07/30/08
RE: Google Knol - Yup, it's a Wikipedia killer  hgeorgescu@... | 08/18/08
KNOL IS NO MATCH FOR WIKIPEDIA  ZDNET_guest666 | 08/24/08

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