The Day After: Looking At How Well Knol Pages Rank On Google

Knol pages are probably optimized and tuned heavily for Google search results, but I doubt the indexer/engine itself has any "if (IsKnolPage) rank++" kind of code in it.

When I started a small travel blog, after about a week it was quite well indexed for some terms, but I'm guessing most of that was the fast that I registered it on Google Analytics and Webmaster Tools, and submitted a sitemap, etc.