Google Won’t Make Judgements, but Desires to be Starting Point
Get the WebProNews Newsletter: [ Business] With the announcement
of Knol, Google displayed their desire to become a publisher.
Why? To make free information more accessible. It doesn’t hurt
that publishers dominate other industries, like music – where in
some cases giving artists nothing, while some artists get less
than nothing, even if they made millions in sales.  Danny
Sullivan had some reservations on Knol, as does Rich Skrenta,
and just about every other successful results oriented
independent web author.  While claiming Google will not make any
editorial judgements of quality, and Google will treat Knols
like any other web pages, Google’s Udi Manber had this to say:
They desire it to be a starting point for searchers and yet they
will not promote it?  Think back to the YouTube purchase. After
Google bought the site, did they start blessing / featuring any
YouTube content? Yes they did. Google’s Uinversal Search
integrated YouTube so tigh