Webdev, when you say "scary news for us affiliates" do you mean in terms of the knols will take over the search engine rankings? I'm not so sure. Sounds like to me, it's just going to be a better Wikipedia and may hurt their rankings more than anything.
But as far as taking over the SERPS, I'm not so sure that should be a big concern due to the fact it's still a benefit of Google to display a wide variety of relevant results from different sites. I would hope they'd be smart enough not to clog up the rankings with a bunch of knol pages. I just don't see that happening unless I'm missing something in the explanation of what knol is going to do.
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