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Its kind of funny that I find this again, as I only first heard about Knol yesterday or the day before, which of course got me a little sidetracked from everything I was working on to research it further. I think to be blatantly honest I have grown a little tired of Wikipedia myself, every time I search for something it seems like they are in the results, and of course Knol being a Google property it would be even more prevalent in the search results.

On the NY Times article you linked to they have a spokesman from Google quoted as saying that they would treat it as any other site, however I seriously doubt that. I am thinking the site will be shoved in our faces until we are sick of looking at it, simply because they can do it, and why shouldn't they? If you are going to launch a new tool/site it would only make sense to favor it, thats how you make revenue.

Anyways, just my two cents. We will have to see how it works out, from what I understand it is in very private beta right now so it will probably be a while yet before Wikipedia has to start worrying.