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I have read only this morning that Google is coming out with a Wikipedia-esque content system. You can read about it on Google’s Blog here. A great follow-up article can be found here. I especially like (well, fear really) what the author points out about search results.

Justin, I hope your admiration and love for Google is depleting, because I feel that, in the name of free-happy-go-lucky services they’re really destroying the beauty and diversity of the world wide web by taking it over with their freaky, unlimited enterprise. Blah. Sad that I feel that way but I am so tired of Google developing (and destroying) one thing after another just to turn a profit.

What Google is proposing sounds an awful lot like about.com to me since articles are written by experts in the same manner that About.com is sort of owned by experts. I know a lot of people get onto Wikipedia’s case because you cannot site precisely who wrote which bit of information and therefore cannot prove 100% accuracy. However, I personally am so tired of the web existing strictly for personal or business promotion. One beautiful thing about Wikipedia is that it exists mostly for knowledge and not self-promotion – it’s faceless. Google’s Knols will definitely abolish this small shred of purity. *sigh*