Some people noticed Knol articles are already sometimes ranking very well in Google results, even though Google promised Knol articles wouldn’t get any artificial boost.
Google: We See 1 Trillion URLs Daily
Google says the World Wide Web is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how mind-bogglingly big it really is. I mean you think Kim Kardashian’s butt is big but that’s just peanuts to the Web.
Is Knol A Fast-Track To High Google Placement?
Well-respected search pundit Danny Sullivan put the newly-launched Google Knol to the test, to see if contributed pages found their way into a top-ten placement in Google’s search results.
Google Knol Launches
Google went live with Knol, a platform to read and write articles on all kinds of subjects. Knol was being tested privately since some time and had been pre-announced back in 2007. The address is knol.google.com, but notably not knol.com or knol.org or even googleknol.com. This project is somewhat reminiscent of Wikipedia, though there are many differences as well.
Digg Offers Little To Rumored Buyer Google
Eric Schmidt and company could have a $200 million check waiting for social media site Digg. Google shareholders may be wondering why.
Google Says Google News Not Priceless
Despite no ads or any obvious revenue generation, Google News is worth $100 million to Google, according to VP Marissa Mayer. How does zero equal $100 million? As one of Google’s many for free peripheral services, enough people sort of ride the Google wave over to the search engine from the News page. In Google’s estimation, all that referral traffic is worth a pretty penny.
Google Opens Knol For Knowledge-Sharing
We’ve noted time and time again the way in which Wikipedia receives loads of traffic from Google, and to be honest, there’s no clear sign that this will change. But Google has gone so far as to launch Knol, a sort of would-be competitor.
Google Hearts Digg Rumors Resurface
For the third time this year speculation has aroused around an impending sale of Digg.com to Google. Is the third time a charm? We may not know for a couple of weeks, but at least this latest round of slow-news-day maybes has a rumored letter of intent and a believe-it-or-not deadline.
Viacom CEO: Google’s Infringement A Calculated Risk
No doubt the high priced attorneys working for Viacom will have to prove CEO Philippe’s Dauman’s words in court—or at least sell them well enough to convince those that matter. The rhetoric reporters recorded last night was far from clouded: Eric Schmidt and Google had no intention of fighting copyright violations on YouTube so long as it helped them get to the top of the online video market.
Google’s Walking Directions Debut
Walking directions first became visible to some Google Maps users about two weeks ago, and whatever tests the company conducted apparently went well. Walking directions are now available to everyone, with Google answering several of the questions that came up.