{"id":344,"date":"2008-08-23T20:48:03","date_gmt":"2008-08-23T11:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=344"},"modified":"2008-08-23T20:48:03","modified_gmt":"2008-08-23T11:48:03","slug":"in-japan-yahoo-does-google-knol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/in-japan-yahoo-does-google-knol\/","title":{"rendered":"In Japan, Yahoo! does &#8220;Google Knol&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In English Web, No.1 Google tries to erode <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\">Wikipedia<\/a>&#8216;s territory by <a href=\"http:\/\/knol.google.com\/\">Knol<\/a>. In Japan, interestingly, the champion portal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yahoo.co.jp\/\">Yahoo! Japan<\/a> starts wiki based annotation service &#8220;Editable Related Info Area&#8221;(Kanren Johou Eria [J]) on their news site annex <a href=\"http:\/\/headlines.yahoo.co.jp\/hl\">Yahoo! Japan News Topics<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yahoo.co.jp\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/yahoo-japan-logo1.png\" alt=\"Yahoo! Japan\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHere is the topic of &#8220;Beijin Olympic 2008&#8221; screenshot. You can see more than half of the page is occupied this user-generated contents. The section is began with disclaimer text &#8220;The following are guided-contents created by media staffs and readers.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dailynews.yahoo.co.jp\/fc\/sports\/2008_summer_olympic_games_in_beijing\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/beijing-olympics-2008-yahoo-japan-news.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"beijing-olympics-2008-yahoo-japan-news\" width=\"130\" height=\"844\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-694\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIn this Olympic topic case, many links are sorted out in categories,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Olympic official sites<\/li>\n<li>Olympic pages on other media<\/li>\n<li>Medal-winners&#8217; profiles and movies<\/li>\n<li>Opening Celemony<\/li>\n<li>Timetable<\/li>\n<li>Movies explaining each sports<\/li>\n<li>Illustrations<\/li>\n<li>Japan&#8217;s records in past olympics<\/li>\n<li>Athletes\/organizations\/media reporters&#8217; weblogs<\/li>\n<li>Photos<\/li>\n<li>Arenas information<\/li>\n<li>Newspaper in printable PDF<\/li>\n<li>Poll results<\/li>\n<li>Some RSS feeds from affiliated media<\/li>\n<li>Social Networks for sports fans on affiliated media<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Many of them are links to other contents on Yahoo! Japan, but it is not necessary Yahoo! Japan showing partiality to themselves, as Yahoo! Japan really holds a lot of contents in Japanese websphere.<br \/>\nAs you notice, this user-generated section is oriented not for &#8220;Definition&#8221; but for making &#8220;Reference&#8221; information, if you compare with Wikipedia and Google Knol. Keywords&#8217; definition part is not opened to outside editors.<br \/>\nThese reference info have been there before, but they were edited only by Yahoo! Japan staff. Now, Yahoo! Japan users can apply to become the editor. There is a online exam to be the editor. They are not paid for contributions but there seem already many user editors seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/dailynews.yahoo.co.jp\/fc\/sports\/2008_summer_olympic_games_in_beijing\/wiki_history\/\">history pages<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>See Also:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pr.yahoo.co.jp\/release\/2008\/0805a.html\">Yahoo! Japan press release &#8211; Added editable &#8220;related info area&#8221; on &#8220;Yahoo! News Topics&#8221;<\/a> [J]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In English Web, No.1 Google tries to erode Wikipedia&#8216;s territory by Knol. In Japan, interestingly, the champion portal Yahoo! Japan starts wiki based annotation service &#8220;Editable Related Info Area&#8221;(Kanren Johou Eria [J]) on their news site annex Yahoo! Japan News Topics. Here is the topic of &#8220;Beijin Olympic 2008&#8221; screenshot. 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