I’m not sure about Google Knol Team level of strictness on this, but I did find many knols that are either useless – sorry for being harsh, spammy and scrapes from other sites, most notably Wikipedia.

Google Knol, in my opinion, contains extraordinary knols on broad range of topics. Having a few bad knols would not hurt much, but I see a growing trend of this due to the widely publicised (and tested) facts that knols rank well in the Google Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs).

Even I just read that some even positioned #1 on Google SERPs for a certain keyword – Internet marketers and users alike must have already been knowing about this for long, and currently running a campaign on Google Knol monetisation.

I do not oppose knol monetisations, but I oppose knols that contain nothing but sales-pitches.

What can a knol user and visitor can do about this? You can do nothing and let the Google Knol sustain itself, or you can be a part of a group of people that report bad knols and comments.

What I do, is that I will not report anything to anyone. Instead, I will rate knols as it is – a 5 star for excellent knol, or 1 star for poor knol.

Hopefully Google Knol will not become Squidoo-ish. Let Wikipedia be Wikipedia, Squidoo be Squidoo, and Google Knol be Google Knol.

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