Goodbye Knol

November 25, 2011 Leave a Comment

On 23rd November, 2011 – day before that is – Google announced it will close down Knol. A few days after its launch in 2008, I had ranted about Knol being a rip-off on Squidoo. Seth Godin – pretty much the insider at Squidoo – explains how they dealt with it.

Plagiarized products do not work, even if you throw in weight and technology behind it.

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About Subrata Majumdar
Business Manager for South Asia & ASEAN for a leading multi national corporation in online financial information and analytics. Avid photographer and occasional writer. Voracious reader of non-fiction. Views here are my own and not of anyone else, especially that of my employer

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