What is Google Knol?
Dec 14

What is Google Knol?

Encouraging people to contribute knowledge: I’m a little confused about this, I guess. Is Google trying to take on Wikipedia?

The challenge posed to us by Larry, Sergey and Eric was to find a way to help people share their knowledge. This is our main goal.

Earlier this week, we started inviting a selected group of people to try 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.

Another post discussing this has a very telling title: Google Runs Out of Content to Monetize; Wants You to Build More

by Deane   December 14, 2007 9:23 AM    |   Follow Gadgetopia on Twitter   |  Tags:  Google Knol

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by Michael,   December 16, 2007 10:51 PM  

ur an idiot

by Michael,   December 16, 2007 10:52 PM  

NOBODY LIKES WIKIPEDIA SO OBVIOUSLY THERE TRYING TO GET RID OF IT, FOOL!!!

by Benxamin,   December 17, 2007 7:23 PM  

This is Google "partnering" with Seth Godin's Squidoo Lens concept. Why not get the prolific experts blogging about what they want and target ads at them?

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