Google has been developing a new program that it calls "knols" which they define as a knowledge base much like Wikipedia which has been around for a long time. We were alerted to today's grand opening of the Google knowledge base site by one of our news sources so we went to check it out.
We found that the front page was dominated by knols most of which were probably written by Google employees or their friends. We feel reasonably safe in making that assumption because the vast majority of knols were all about the same general topic which was medicine, illnesses and diseases.
When something new is first opened by such giants as Google it is usually only one key person at the helm who chooses who is going to get all the publicity and what they will do or write about to get that publicity and it isn't as though they had actually opened the new facility to the public and pick articles actually written by the public at large as advertised. That's pretty normal because if it is brand new and almost no body has heard of it yet except a few geeks then nobody will be certain to contribute to the knowledge base who can or will write good copy.
A company must present what it deems to be an acceptable front page that will not offend anyone because of possible controversial material. So they have them write about some benign subject or subjects certain not to offend.
The first knol in the knowledge base is an article on backpacking in the mountains and then from there a slew of articles about various diseases and disabilities that constantly plague portions of humanity.
We did find some contrast to the mundane articles in the form of several articles written by Oklahoma City author Bill Bauer of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Bill is a true internet pioneer in that he can be counted on to be at the forefront of most new things that pop up on the internet. For instance he was one of the first to start blogging when blogging first appeared on the internet back in 1998. His first blog was quickly followed by many more and most of them are still in existance today.
We quickly found that his current list of new knols starts with this one.
which for some strange reason he left untitled
For his second entry into the knol empire Bill answered a question on where he is one of the top notch experts on collections law which is his forte.
For his next article Bill answered a question about oldsters and garnishment of their pension checks. It seems that some inhumane debt collector has been hounding a pair of oldsters who were shuffled over to a doctor who doesn't do SSI and who now wants his money for essentially doing nothing.
Bill's next article discusses unfair debt collection practices which are more than abundant in the collection industry. Such unfair debt collection practices are becoming much more plentiful as debt collectors scramble to survive in the now failing economy.
Bill and his students have been extremely successful in bringing both debt collectors and their lawyers to their knees for a long time now.
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