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Google Knol-watch out Wikipedia

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apoorva84 Original post #1
Dec 15, 2007 at 12:04 AM
Google's answer to wikipedia-Google Knol

“Knol”, just announced a the official Google blog, is a currently private, invitation-only knowledge sharing service. Google says that a Knol is a “unit of knowledge,"* and in the style of the old-school About.com website, experts are invited to the service to write an introductory article on a subject of their expertise. Google wants to provide all the tools to write this, and host the content and so on, so that experts can focus just on the content. Then, ad revenues those pages generate can be shared.

its invitation only at the moment..

Source: *blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-12-14-n19.html
naveen_reloaded
Dec 15, 2007 at 12:15 AM
now why dont somebody sue google ??? isnt it going towards monopoly like /....???

anyway thnks for info
a_k_s_h_a_y
Dec 15, 2007 at 12:18 AM
but then google can invest more into it and make it really superb and correct flaws of wikipedia ..!

good for us... another option ..!!
ravi_9793
Dec 15, 2007 at 12:27 AM
Good to see Google in wiki.
I use wikipedia and Microsoft encarta for online study...

But I am scared..Google may fill half page with adsense code. :D
talkingcomet
Dec 15, 2007 at 12:49 AM
At the discretion of the author, a knol may include ads. If an author chooses to include ads, Google will provide the author with substantial revenue share from the proceeds of those ads.

yes!!
it will be full of ads!!
no doubt

Source: *googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/encouraging-people-to-contribute.html
The_Devil_Himself
Dec 15, 2007 at 12:52 AM
lols.Google will own them all in this too.

go google go!
Pathik
Pathik #7
Dec 16, 2007 at 2:53 PM
invites anyone?
nvidia
nvidia #8
Dec 16, 2007 at 3:05 PM
Cool.... Thanks for the info
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Chirag #9
Dec 16, 2007 at 3:31 PM
Send me one invite plz... chiragshivnani[at]gmail.com
skeletor
skeletor #10
Dec 17, 2007 at 9:19 PM
If Google displays the Knol articles above Wikipedia articles in Google Searches, then Wikimedia Foundation may sue Google.

But if it contains Ads, then people may like to remain with Wikipedia.