Thursday, December 20, 2007

Google Knol


Knol is a project planned by Google for user-generated articles on topics ranging from "scientific concepts, to medical information, from geographical and historical, to entertainment, from product information, to how-to-fix-it instructions." It was announced on December 13, 2007. Knol pages are "meant to be the first thing someone who searches for this topic for the first time will want to read", according to Udi Manber, a Vice President of Engineering at Google. The term knol, coined by Google to mean a "unit of knowledge", refers to both the project and an article in the project. The site has been seen by many as Google's attempt to compete with Wikipedia, while others liken it to About.com or Squidoo.

The site is currently in private beta, and requests to create "knols" are by invitation only. According to Danny Sullivan, an editor of Search Engine Land, Google told him that it is possible that the site might never launch.


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