Google’s Knol service seems to have already fallen on hard times, and is wrestling with junk content, plagiarized articles and enough negative buzz to kill any goodwill the project ever had.

It has been two weeks since Google Knol made its controversial debut. But are the predictions of a spam haven coming true? I took a look to find out.

Plagiarism Today was honored this morning with a mention by the Guardian for its coverage of the recent Google Knol spam controversy.

Google has introduced it’s effort to take on Wikipedia, but much of the conversation around it has been about how it will hurt webmasters and could cause chaos in the search engine results.