Google's First Hubristic Leap: Competing With the
Internet

post from Internet Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha on 24 July 2008 09:13:18 AM. © Internet Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha

Jeff Jarvis submits:

Google’s (GOOG) hubris may have finally gotten the better of them. See this from the official Google blog about the launch of Knol, the Wikipedia-About.com-Associated-Content it just officially launched:

The web contains vast amounts of information, but not everything worth knowing is on the web. An enormous amount of information resides in people’s heads: millions of people know useful things and billions more could benefit from that knowledge. Knol will encourage these people to contribute their knowledge online and make it accessible to everyone.

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