With google launching ‘Knol’ their rival to Wikipedia and their term for a unit of knowledge it looks like user generated content is here to stay.
Wikipedia, the sprawling online encyclopedia lets any visitor makes alterations to online pages and remain anonymous whereas knol articles are written by an individual and stress an opinion. Sound familiar?
The fledging knol project appears to be gaining little ground on seven year old Wiki which boasts more than 8.2 million articles (we’re almost at 2,000 blog posts). However, the highlighted knols posts relate to health issues such as migraines and irritable bowel syndrome. Whatever next? Detox at a Thai Spa that we know and love here? Maybe go online to quit smoking?
We ask you - Do you use Wiki and would you use knol or any other online medium to cure your ills as we plan to start ramping the health category up here at GSTF. What did you do to get better when you were last ill? Try home remedies, head straight for the Docs or google your cure and give it a GO!
Do tell at a time when Doctors have admitted googling away to unearth the right prescription. Cheers!
I thought that Knol is similar to Squidoo rather than Wiki..
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Hi Sarah,
It’s been compared to that aswell but its the first serious threat to Wiki as google flex their muscles…
Haha, it is interesting to read about illnesses online but to cure it, go get a doc because they ‘knol’ everything about medic..
Assuming they’re not overworked, underpaid and trying to get through their day!
In the UK it’s a major resource issue.
Hello Jim&Em.
I don’t Wikkii or any other thingy because like UP I know everything !!
BO snr - its good to see we are on the same wavelength!
i let my doctor do the googling as they know how to spell all those long medical words - that’s what medical school is for!!
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Hmmmm..
truth time ..
I hardly ever use Wiki…
it is unrelable, I could have written a post on engineering, and people use be using at as proper knowledge…
WhenI found the american Government had been re writting information I said well thats that and removed the link … there are plenty of other places to find accurate info if you are prepared to look for it..
Never heard of this Knol.. this is the first time I heard mentin of it and am not to impressed..
sorry guys… anything which written on this basis and then publicised as truth in an encyclopeadia should be written by people who have half a clue about what they are writting about not joe blow from up the road who knows enough about everything to get himself into trouble….
I agree AC
the entire new age movement however would disagree as wikipedia is based on more facts!!
I dont know if it would be the newagers alone…
but I am too wary of this sort of thing….
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I don’t trust Wiki to be reliable. I always end up checking at least a couple of other sources, so I might as well start somewhere that has a better reliability reputation.
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Is this not happening now then?
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Hi! None of the above, I just have to look into the mirror to see how I’m going. Take Care - Peter
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Amazing
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I often go online to cure my ills.
However, my ill is that I’m usually backed up, and go online for porn.
In 2 or 3 minutes, tops - VOILA! - I’m cured.
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Oh and a brand new search engine, Cuil has just been launched-developed by a former Google engineers, plus it has a unique way of delivering results - it automatically produces tabs for related, more in depth searches!
What this means is that Cuil (pronounced cool) is already doing some sorting for you and categorising search results. This is particularly important since the human brain depends upon categorical organisation to help us recognise things. The frustration we have with Google is that its search results, whilst they can be useful, are non categorised. Google expects us to do the categorisation by refining our own search terms. Cuil does that automatically for you and presents the results in an easy to use way.
For the past nine years, there have been no threats to Google. Microsoft has tried, but in fact all they have done is try to copy Google - the results pages are similar, there is lack of categorical organisation and no intelligence to find extra things related to your search terms even group hugs.
Cuil is the first search engine that is different. Google needs to notice this. Why? Because the world switched from using Yahoo to Google almost overnight because Google was so different to the “traditional” search at that time. Cuil is now remarkably different and therefore may well find a home amongst those people who find Google difficult and cumbersome.
And remember - the vast majority of people who use Google report that it fails to deliver what they were after until they refine their search term. Cuil seems to be getting that right by delivering alternative searches related to your original term in a friendly tabbed interface that is much more tastefully designed than Google’s plain and rather untidy offering….
Or is it??
Not impressed with Cuil.
If you type in ‘Hardcore’ it doesn’t ‘come’ up with what you expect
googles offering untidy? its a beautifull example of minimalist design and functionality - a triumph of less is more.
Of course the tab idea is brilliant and would be very easy for google to do - i prefer tabs to drop down menus myself - if it isn’t visible, how do you know its there and why should you click on the little arrow to find out? such is the basic behaviour of most people online.
Us more savvy ones know you have to dig a little bit deeper to find exactly what you want and the result is usually worth it.
Take me the other night - I spent 40 mins driving around teh supermarkets in derby looking for the cheapest fuel before i filled up and saved myself 2p per litre against the next cheapest petrol station just down from our house. Now that’s what you call dedicated searching.
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Meaning the way the search results are presented not the awesome google homepage!
LOL with your fuel search.
I try never to go to the doctor. Lots of walks in the park, good books, yummy food and lots of love seems to have done the trick thus far.
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I have physician friends and quite a bit of knowledge myself. But, I also call my own primary physician or pharmacist. For more common things or things of interest. I use Google search or their Yahoo’s Health Encyclopedia which is difficult to find, so I bookmarked it (http://health.yahoo.com/ency/;_ylt=AmeHDfwqYr74lXLBr8nCOqgv3MQF). I also use the MayoClinic and other reputable health sites. My sister in-law is also a nurse and is more than helpful. But, if in doubt, I call my physician.
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Fancy a health site that is difficult to find? We’ll check the others out you mentioned….
No, it is Yahoo’s expanded health site and I have difficulty locating it (It is probably me). You go to the regular health site and there are some other clicks…I just get lost, but I really like it and it also gives you other links on the same subject. The link is in my message above.
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