Piggynap's Blog | Zoe Piper » monopoly http://www.piggynap.com Zoe Piper, The Internet And Everything Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:00:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Google Knols – Healthy Competition? http://www.piggynap.com/google/google-knols-healthy-competition/ http://www.piggynap.com/google/google-knols-healthy-competition/#comments Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:20:05 +0000 admin http://www.piggynap.com/?p=17 Google Knol has just been opened to the public after being in Beta for some time. The idea is part Wikipedia, part Squidoo and part About.com, with ‘experts’ writing detailed articles on specific subjects, from their own point of view.

At the moment Knols have mainly been written by healthcare professionals – a glance at the front page selection shows the narrow range quite clearly:

Google states that Knols will appear in the search results, just like any other website. I’m reminded of Google Books, which appear for many search results regardless of whether you want a book. Presumably soon Knols will be appearing near (above?) similar Wikipedia entries.

MSN used to be the worst culprit for trying to keep you on their own network but it seems Google is going the same way. I’m all for healthy competition but when Google have such a monopoly on search they could quite easily rank their own domains before, well, real websites.

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