teslatug writes "Google appears to be reinventing Wikipedia with their new product that they call knol (not yet publicly available). In an attempt to gather human knowledge, Google will accept articles from users who will be credited with the article by... ...full story at slashdot
from slashdot on Fri, Dec 14 2007
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| 24 Sep 08 |
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Why Google Knol will never be as good as Wikipedia » digg There are two articles about Sarah Palin on Google Knol, the search company's abysmal new Wikipedia-like reference guide. One of them is a mess: Just a few hundred words long, the article is fraught with factual and grammatical errors. |
| 23 Jul 08 |
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Google Launches Knol, The Monetizable Wikipedia (Jason Kincaid/TechCrunch) » techmeme Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch: Google Launches Knol, The Monetizable Wikipedia — Today Google has launched Knol, its Wikipedia alternative that holds authors accountable for the articles they write. Each article is created by a team... |
| 15 Dec 07 |
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Google to Wikipedia: "Knol" thine enemy » digg Google's new "knol" social knowledge project has a lofty-sounding goal: make the world's knowledge easier to put on line. In reality, Google wants a piece of the social knowledge search results, and looks likely to get it. |
| 23 Jul 08 |
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Google's Knol, Expert Wiki, Goes Live » slashdot Brian Jordan and other readers sent in word that Google has taken the wraps off Knol, its expert-written challenger to Wikipedia. (We discussed Knol when it was announced last year.) Wired has an in-depth look. Knol's distinctions from Wikipedia are that... |
| 14 Dec 07 |
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Google Knol - Google's Play To Aggregate Knowledge Pages (Danny Sullivan/Search Engine Land) » techmeme Google Knol - Google's Play To Aggregate Knowledge Pages — Move over Wikipedia, Yahoo Answers, Mahalo, and Squidoo. Maybe. That's because Google's testing its own service to let people build a repository of knowledge. ... |
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