Write Great Google Knols

I was compiling and sifting through reaction to the Knol launch from around the web, and noticed something weird. I searched Digg.com for front page stories about ‘knol’. No joy–the newest is 189 days old. It’s the same deal for stories involving Google–nothing on the Knol launch there.

It struck me as odd, that the tech news giant was, for all intents and purposes, ignoring the launch of Google Knol. There were a couple of submissions at around 60 to 65 Diggs, but not enough to hit the notorious front page.

Then I figured it out. I feel a little silly, actually, because I noticed this news earlier in the day:

3900 Diggs and counting. That’s big news in that community. There’s even a supplementary story that’s received over 2500 Diggs.

Of course, it’s not like there’s a click-scarcity on Digg. Diggers could push both Google-related stories to the front page, but for whatever reason, the, uh, sourced-crowd chose not too favour Knol. Maybe tomorrow?

UPDATE: Today, Digg finally pushed a knol story to the front page. Oddly, it’s from PhysOrg.com.