I don’t know this for sure, but when I listened to episode VII, Verse 2, of The Gang today, I figured it all out. Google Knol’s private beta doesn’t even exist. It is just one of Jason Calacanis‘ latest moves to make Jimmy Wales see that Wikipedia needs advertising on its site. (JC here, here, JW here). Wikipedia will always be a superior product over Knol, but funding might become an issue – with AdSense on the Knols Google will never have a problem (as if they’d ever have one).
What gave the ploy away? The positioning of Squidoo as the spammer of all spammers, that just sounds too much like Jason. 😉
Relax, I am just making this up.
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