Comments on: Google Knol”edge”, Wikipedia and Trias Politica

By: Automotive Social Network

Automotive Social Network — Mon, 26 May 2008 01:23:08 +0000

Conflict of interests. I personally do not like the idea of ranking wiki at the top for almost any results.

By: ds

ds — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 02:34:33 +0000

I think that if knoll pages are at the top, a LOT of advertisers will make hundreds knols and most knols will be advertising.

By: Jaan Kanellis

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:06:25 +0000

Not so sure about this one. Do we really feel comfortable with Google adding a website to the top of just about every search term. Doesn’t this feel ethically wrong in some of our minds? Sure it is their websites and can list who they want 1-100, but shouldn’t these pages be susceptible to the same algorithm we all have to be judged by and not get an artifical boost from Google?

By: CarstenCumbrowski

CarstenCumbrowski — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 23:29:26 +0000

I completely agree with you Endre. They already have a conflict of interest when it comes to MFA sites and Parked Domains that show up in the search results and are monetized by Google. This will make it much worse IMO.

By: Endre Jofoldi

Endre Jofoldi — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 20:26:03 +0000

It is pretty clear it is going to become a conflict of interest. It think one of the main strength of Google was its independence of the content providers. It is going to make the results less trustworthy.