Google Knol is Live: Wikipedia Killer?

Published at July 23, 2008   By Ram   Filed Under Google   0 Comments  

Google Knol is live, any one can create a knol on topics they are familiar with. They announced this project in December 2007 but it is in testing at that time and is now live. Knol is something similar to Wikipedia but it is different in some aspects like moderation and multiple articles on the [...]

Knol: Google’s User Generated Content (Encyclopedia)

Published at December 14, 2007   By Ram   Filed Under Google   6 Comments  

Google has posted an announcement on its official blog about an upcoming knowledge portal called “Knol”. Something similar to wikipedia, users generate content on the site on topics they are familiar.
Google wants users write content who are authoritative on a subject. The users are called knols here, these knols can write on any topic.
Google [...]