PageRank Toolbar Update is near

PR update is going on and can be visible in next few days.

This is what the Google guy, Matt Cutts stated in his blog on 24th July, 2008 -
“Hey folks, I wanted to let you know that new toolbar PageRank values should become visible over the next few days. I’m expecting that also in the next few days that we’ll be expiring some older penalties on websites.“

So, be ready to check your new updated PageRank for your websites / blogs and web directories.

My best wishes to all.
Cheers!

Google Knol : Knowledge Sharing Open

After several months of testing, Google has finally launched the knowledge-sharing site called Knol where people can share their opinions and views about a specific topic like in Wikipedia.

Main points about the Knol –

• People can contribute their knowledge online and make it accessible to everyone with this site.
• Authorship – Every knol will have an author (or group of authors) who put their name behind their content.
• Moderated Collaboration – With this feature, any reader can make suggested edits to a knol article which the author may then choose to accept, reject, or modify before these contributions become visible to the public.
• Strong Community tools – which allow for many modes of interaction between readers and authors. People can submit comments, rate, or write a review of a knol.
• Revenue Sharing – If an author chooses to include ads, Google will provide the author with a revenue share from the proceeds of those ad placements.

So, I think, very soon..we can see many Knol articles in the search engine rankings for many popular keywords and phrases.

More here

Cheers!