Posts Tagged with ‘Knol’

Recently I have noticed an interesting thing in the traffic stats for Profy. Specifically I have started to notice people arriving from Google (mostly) and some other search engines after they do a search for a single word - “internet”. And since I always find it amusing when people google “Google” to get the same link they are actually on (and yes, Google is quite a popular search term) I thought that googling “internet” was equally amusing. After all, what [...]

Google is a smart company - smart enough for many people to be surprised after they witness this or that move or an acquisition, surprised enough to say "Why has not anyone thought of that move earlier?" And now it seems that Google has finally realized that it sends way too much traffic from its search results pages to websites that do not contribute to Google's business. What would be the correct move for a business when faced [...]

When I saw the news items start floating about Google Knols, I wasn't the least bit surprised. Do any Google Search for a subject and odds are, Wikipedia is in the top five results at least 75% of the time. Wikipedia has been one of the biggest things online that Google hasn't touched, so you had to know it was only a matter of time.
For once, however, I think that Google's invasion of yet another area of the Internet can [...]