Google Knol was recently opened to the public as a rival service to the ubiquitous wikipedia – I had considered whether it would be worthwhile as a marketing and possibly SEO exercise to write something on there and so took a look to see what type of things had been put up.
It didn’t take long for the self serving marketing spam to make it up there. The author in this case claims an affiliation to simplylikehome.com but appears to be more affiliated to vrbo.com from her articles. I couldn’t be bothered to investigate further.
If I find time to write something I hope it will be more useful and less obviously just commercial rubbish. It remains to be seen how Google Knol deals with this kind of thing as anybody can rate your article, giving the potential for spammers club together to boost their own articles. Maybe Google is hoping that the wider public opinion will drown them out?
Google Knol
Google Knol was recently opened to the public as a rival service to the ubiquitous wikipedia – I had considered whether it would be worthwhile as a marketing and possibly SEO exercise to write something on there and so took a look to see what type of things had been put up.
It didn’t take long for the self serving marketing spam to make it up there. The author in this case claims an affiliation to simplylikehome.com but appears to be more affiliated to vrbo.com from her articles. I couldn’t be bothered to investigate further.
If I find time to write something I hope it will be more useful and less obviously just commercial rubbish. It remains to be seen how Google Knol deals with this kind of thing as anybody can rate your article, giving the potential for spammers club together to boost their own articles. Maybe Google is hoping that the wider public opinion will drown them out?