Will Google Knol Provide any Benefit?

I have just started trying Google’s Knol product.  It does look like it is their answer to Squidoo.com.  I have created my first real page there titled Car Dealer Search Engine Reputation Management.  I will be randomly searching to see how long it takes for it to index and it’s position in the search engine.  It may actually become a good tool in Online Reputation Management in the near future.  But just like anything associated with Google.com it could be hit or miss.

One thing is for sure it will probably never get slapped like Squidoo.com by googles algorithms.  I am a huge fan of Squidoo and don’s see Knol as a replacement but as a more of an article database and wikipedia.com combined.

For someone who likes to create content it can also provide an additional revenue stream as you do have some options for including your google adsense code as well.  This will be interesting to watch to see how well it competes with other user generated content style sites.