I've mulled it over a spell and have come up with one slightly less critical thought on Google knol. A potential positive - users can rate, edit, comment on, and question articles, which may lead to a more visible and interesting conversation than in Wikipedia discussion pages. My main question about article edits is this... Continue Reading →
google knol, or a thinly-veiled strategy to knock wikipedia down a notch.
Just read about this on Slashdot - the folks over at the Official Google Blog have called preschool to session for the day: "There are millions of people who possess useful knowledge that they would love to share, and there are billions of people who can benefit from it. We believe that many do not... Continue Reading →
third-generation search engines
It's been out for a week now but I just got around to reading Newsweek's "Searching for the Best Engine" article, which compares efforts by various companies to shave Google's market share by improving on their "second-generation" search model (first generation = query matching, second generation = weighted link-frequency ranking). Although much of it reads... Continue Reading →
