I just discovered a very interesting post through a blogoscope entry about Google Knol. It is located in Anil Dash’s blog and is called ‘Google and the theory of mind‘.

He gives some examples, why google is not aware of what others are aware. One of these examples is the google Knol announcement almost a week ago.

What really drew my attenion is, that allthough the Knol announcement clarifies that the content will also be available to other search engines, Anil Dash notes that Knol will be hosted and indexed by google.

“This presents inherent conflicts in the ranking of content, as well as disincentives for content creators to control the environment in which their content is published. This necessarily disadvantages competing search engines, but more importantly eliminates the ability for content creators to innovate in the area of content presentation or enhancement.”

A very well-argumented post, which surely puts the subject under a new perspective. Take a look at it.

Update [22.12.07]: Masternewnmedia posted today a great article on the subject. Google Knol and wikipedia: Risks, opportunities, challenges