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I love the way you always assume malicious intent behind everything. - Adewale Oshineye

Cool. Whether it is deliberate or not, it is lame. Hopefully Google fixes this before more attention is called to it, for Google's sake. - Dare Obasanjo

So if the rankings are normal, they should manipulate the results to artificially lower Knol results just because it's a Google property? Knol got a huge amount of press and links, and has very few actual pages (about 1330, it appears), so it's not surprising that those pages rank high (a lot of pagerank spread among a small number of pages means each page has high-PR). For what it's worth, Wikipedia currently ranks above Knol itself for a search on "knol": http://www.google.com/search... - Paul Buchheit

If the rankings are normal, then there is no cause for concern.So I'll wait to see what Matt Cutts or the Google blog has to say on this. - Dare Obasanjo

Yes, because waiting more than 24 hours to get enough data points before insinuating that Google lied is just so last century? - Daniel Dulitz

Daniel, I need to wait 24 hours before writing a blog post or a tweet about weird results myself and others are seeing from a search engine? Since when? - Dare Obasanjo

Dare, Yahoo ranks a knol page at #2 for the query [Music in Capoeira]. Do you think that Yahoo is pumping up knol rankings too? I left a comment on your blog with more info. - Matt Cutts

Matt, at the very least it seems like being on the front page of Knol passes massive PageRank (or something) to these entries. I assumed that this must at least be a bug, if it is not intentional (and thus "shady") but from your comments on my post you seem to consider this natural. - Dare Obasanjo

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