Google unveils reference tool after 7-month test
July 23, 2008 By MICHAEL LIEDTKE , AP Business Writer
(AP) -- Google Inc. is taking the wraps off an Internet encyclopedia designed to give people a chance to show off - and profit from - their expertise on any topic.
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On the internet at large there aren't any controls, and this is what makes search engines (like google) nearly useless for retrieving information from an unknown source. All you get is spam, because the vast majority of the pages google pulls up are garbage. This is the very reason why Wikipedia has become so popular! It isn't perfect, but it is a known quantity, of known quality. This new google project will be like a mini-internet, duplicating the dubious, unsourced, wacko crap that already exists on the web at large.
I think it will be worthless.
It will be interesting to see if this goes the way of Google Answers or not.
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