nomis5 - 9:18 am on Dec 14, 2007 (gmt 0)

The reason you might want to contribute to knol is twofold if I read the article correctly. Fistly, unlike wiki, your name will be published. If I can get the name of my websites appearing in knol then that makes me happy (financially happy I hope).

Second, the article says that adverts can be put on the pages and the author gets a cut of the revenue. Thinking about that, it sounds good. If I get a few articles in knol, the income from the ads has the potential to be good.

It seems that Google is attempting to challenge wiki with a similar version of wiki but monetising it with ads. Is that good? Don't know, but it sure beats having wiki web pages appearing as number 1 in the serps with me getting absolutely nothing from it. Those wiki articles are relegating my pages to a number 2 slot.