Google Knol now supports French, Italian or German along with its native English spam, a move that is sure to be welcomed by spammers in some of Europe’s biggest countries.

Knol launched in July 2008 and was immediately billed as a Wikipedia killer by some, by offering shared ad payments against every page. But the encyclopedia with paying Adsense ads quickly became the target of spammers; the ideal of a free-for-all anyone can post anything promoted by Google was naturally abused about 5 seconds after they hit the on button.

Bonus points to AFP for this description of the service “Google on Thursday made its version of communally-constructed online encyclopedia Wikipedia multi-lingual, opening its Knol compendium to nuggets of knowledge shared in French, Italian or German.” Sounds like a well rounded Knol entry to me

Excellent news: you can now spam Knol in foreign languages is a post from: The Inquisitr

New figures released by Nielsen Online so that all but 10% of Wikipedia’s traffic comes from search engines and other sites, and that most of that traffic comes from Google.

Referrals from Google make up 61% of all visitors to Wikipedia from homes, and 66% from work places. Yahoo delivers 19% and 16% respectively.

Wikipedia’s reliance on search traffic has been long known, but with Google Knol on the way (eventually) this year, any decision to down grade Wikipedia’s place in Google’s search results in favor of Knol could easily wipe out over half of the sites traffic overnight.

No Surprise: Wikipedia’s Traffic Comes From Google is a post from: The Inquisitr