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Google(GOOG) has just announced public opening of their new wiki-knowledge product called “Knol”.

After months of deliberation since December of last year, this project is finally open for people to use.

Let’s take a quick look:

For responding to a Knol subject such as this Lung Cancer article, the user can leave a review with a rating.  This supposedly validates the experts’ writing and becomes part of Knol’s rating system.

Knol also let’s you leave comments.  I believe the comments section is really for those quick comments but the review section should be used for expert reviewers of that subject.

Let’s take a look at the writing aspects of Knol.  You can write a new Knol yourself but you need to stay within these guidelines:

The Knol project is a site that hosts many knols — units of knowledge — written about various subjects. The authors of the knols can take credit for their writing, provide credentials, and elicit peer reviews and comments. Users can provide feedback, comments, related information. So the Knol project is a platform for sharing information, with multiple cues that help you evaluate the quality and veracity of information.

Knols are indexed by the big search engines, of course. And well-written knols become popular the same as regular web pages. The Knol site allows anyone to write and manage knols through a browser on any computer.

Writing a good Knol can definitely boost your SEO and online visibility, especially you are good at what you write about.

Here’s a screenshot of writing a new Knol.  It looks pretty simple and basically it’s like Wikipedia but easier to use.

I don’t know how popular this Knol Project will become but I am sure many webmasters will take advantage of the early SEO you can gain from writing expertise articles.

Knol Resources

Knol Website

How to Write Good Knols

Basics of Writing Knols

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A lawyer has sued Google for showing ads on parked pages.  Parked pages are basically 1-page websites filled with Google AdSense ads, not so great for advertisers.  It seems like there’s minimum click fraud so it’s hard to tell if the case will close or not.

The latest is that Google is being sued by a lawyer (who, of course, is trying to turn it into a class action suit) complaining that the ads he bought on Google were shown on parked domains and error pages which resulted in bad clicks.

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Holy crap, I was looking at GoogleMaps today and found that StreetView can actually reveal a license plate number as the one seen above here.

I think Google will need to change its policies quickly to not reveal the license plate numbers as it could lead to unwanted lawsuits.

On the bright side, it could be used for tracking criminals…

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In recent news, Bell has been accused by Google for throttling certain internet traffic in Canada which illegal under Canadian telecommunications law.

I am glad that Google is getting behind this since they have some power to deal with.

I think internet throttling is just a scam for telecommunication companies to make more money off consumers.

By throttling internet, big online businesses like Google, Yahoo, and AOL will get affected since it means less traffic in the long run.  Throttling might be the worse way to make someone pay for internet, especially since internet has been growing steadily.

They had throttling way back before the internet, when Prodigy and AOL were fighting for customers.  Both Prodigy and AOL used to have pay by hour.   But AOL started offering $10/month for unlimited dial-up access, which proves why AOL got real big while Prodigy just died.

Returning to the point, throttling isn’t much of a problem in the long run as I foresee that at least one telecommunication company will offer unlimited internet and they will get all the customers.

As far as I can see, telecommunication companies throttling internet are simply shooting themselves in the foot.  People by in large control how companies dictate their policies, not the other way around.  Let’s start by boycotting Bell, whatever that crap is.

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Google adds a new feature where you can track logins to your Gmail account.  I personally think this is a great idea as I think Gmail needs a security feature for corporate users and alike.

Now you can browse logs of access to your Gmail by Browser, IP address, and time.

Your IP address, or Internet Protocol address, is a number associated with your computer when you connect to the Internet. Some of you might want to know your IP address numbers (more info on finding out your IP address below) for an extra layer of control. For others who don’t want to think about IP information, you don’t need to.

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Now you can tour the Tour de France with Google Maps Street View!

Street View of the 2008 Tour de France route. Head to google.com/tourdefrance2008 to experience the route stage by stage, and learn more about the images (and check out some of the most breathtaking sights) over on the Lat Long blog.

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Google now has a privacy policy link on their homepage.

Now, we should expect more people to be knowledgeable about Google’s privacy policy due to the new positioning.

How does privacy relate to homepage word count? Larry and Sergey told me we could only add this to the homepage if we took a word away - keeping the “weight” of the homepage unchanged at 28. Given that the new Privacy link fit best with legal disclaimers on the page, I looked to the copyright line. There, we dropped the word “Google” (realizing it was implied, obviously) and added the new privacy link alongside it.

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While messing around with Google search, I accidently typed, “zedoamx” instead of the usual “zedomax”.

I got the “Did you mean zedomax” message, meaning Google now finally recognizing “zedomax” as a word!

I figure I need to mess around more to find a cool definition for “zedomax”.

A name without meaning is meaningless.  However, a name with a meaning might make the world better.

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Google, the search engine googopoly, is currentloy working on crawling and indexing flash files.  This means that web designers/consultants no longer need to focus soley on SEO through non-flash files.

As far as I am concerned, this isn’t really going to change up the SEO market very much as even if flash files can be crawled and indexed, that’s still going to require a traditional internal infrastructure for the flash files, meaning simply more work for the same thang.

Q: What content can Google better index from these Flash files?
All of the text that users can see as they interact with your Flash file. If your website contains Flash, the textual content in your Flash files can be used when Google generates a snippet for your website. Also, the words that appear in your Flash files can be used to match query terms in Google searches.

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