I have read only this morning that Google is coming out with a Wikipedia-esque content system. You can read about it on Google's Blog here. A great follow-up article can be found here. I especially like (well, fear really) what the author points out about search results.
Justin, I hope your admiration and love for Google is depleting, because I feel that, in the name of free-happy-go-lucky services they're really destroying the beauty and diversity of the world wide web by taking it over with their freaky, unlimited enterprise. Blah. Sad that I feel that way but I am so tired of Google developing (and destroying) one thing after another just to turn a profit.
What Google is proposing sounds an awful lot like about.com to me since articles are written by experts in the same manner that About.com is sort of owned by experts. I know a lot of people get onto Wikipedia's case because you cannot site precisely who wrote which bit of information and therefore cannot prove 100% accuracy. However, I personally am so tired of the web existing strictly for personal or business promotion. One beautiful thing about Wikipedia is that it exists mostly for knowledge and not self-promotion - it's faceless. Google's Knols will definitely abolish this small shred of purity. *sigh*
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I don't like it either when they mess up already good products. If they make it better I'm okay with it. I like that they have products that compete with companys that charge for software like Word, Excel, WordPress( could you imagine using that to make a blog... yuck) you never know. maybe wikipedia can be more awesomer with google attached to it.
The thought of Google shutting down/destroying Wikipedia is extreme. A lot of content on Wikipedia isn't even accurate. If Wikipedia is so great, then it shouldn't have anything to worry about. This is all about competition to create a better product. Even in Google's own entry, they recognize that 'Competition of ideas is a good thing.'
The reason the web exists is so that people can communicate and 'connect' with each other.
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/12/google-profiles.html
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