• Google’s Wikipedia or Killing the wikipedia??
  • Google has just announced its knowledge base website similar to Knol, is it another step to own the internet?

A new, free tool that we are calling
“KNOL”

,
which stands for a unit of knowledge. Our goal is to encourage people who know a particular
subject to write an authoritative article about it.…

The key idea behind the knol project is to highlight authors.

We believe that knowing who wrote what will significantly help users make better use of web content. At the heart, a knol is just a web page; we use the word “knol” as the name of the project and as an instance of an article interchangeably. It is well-organized, nicely presented, and has a distinct look and feel, but it is still just a web page.…

Google will not serve as an editor in any way, and will not bless any content. All editorial responsibilities and control will rest with the authors.…

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.