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Google's First Hubristic Leap: Competing With the Internet

I agree with tombo about other advertising companies shouldn't be concerned, but it will be big without a terribly dangerous outcome

Google's Knol Poses a Threat to Mahalo

The problem with anyone being an author to articles is the legitimacy to there information. Most bloggers talk through opinion and usually try to convince others. "Wikipedia has also been considering the addition of an “approval system”" but if you think about it the fact the people will have the ability to put the advertising on their information gives people alternative reasons to boost their ratings, thus more hits = more advertisement which makes the author and the advertisement happy. People will be making more and more email accounts with multiple screen names so they can approve their own writing to increase their hits. If google does the ranking system with advertisement people will start doing stupid things to boost ratings. It is simply to hard to have multiple authors on many issues when they can also have alternative motives to give fake information to their website or to even boast about their own company. It is simply going to be one massive blog with many many people trying to demand ideas/opinions on the site, so many people will spend hours looking for the "right" author/article. Hopefully there will be a staff or something to go over some of the massive about of material