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July 24, 2008
Knol Is Googlepedia
Knol is knowledge without the W(ikipedia) and an edge.
Knol is the newest product launched by Google. The Wikipedia competitor is in beta. Get ready for Knollywood.
Knol is basically Blogspot on steroids, organized by topic.
Google states the key principle behind Knol is authorship. Every knol will have an identified author (or group of authors). It's their knol, their voice, their opinion. Google expects multiple knols on the same subject.
With Knol, we are introducing a new method for authors to work together that we call "moderated collaboration." With this feature, any reader can make suggested edits to a knol which the author may then choose to accept, reject, or modify before these contributions become visible to the public.
People can submit comments, rate, or write a review of a knol. At the discretion of the author, a knol may include ads from our AdSense program. If an author chooses to include ads, Google will provide the author with a revenue share from the proceeds of those ad placements.
The New Yorker magazine will allow any author to add one cartoon per knol from the New Yorker's cartoon repository. Cartoons are an effective (and fun) way to make your point, even on the most serious topics.
Of course, The New Yorker is a publisher.
Google will continue to claim that Google is not.
It's like the famous New Yorker cartoon, "On the Internet, no one knows you're a publisher."
Posted by Kevin Heisler on July 24, 2008 10:54 AM
Comments
Dave Robinson July 25, 2008 3:44 AM
Is this not more similar to squidoo than wikipedia in it's approach? Won't supporting entries with ads just allow bias to creep in?
Jonathan Allen July 25, 2008 5:34 AM
Will it be a Knol vs Wikipedia fight now? looking forward to it.
b2b portal July 25, 2008 6:48 AM
This will be interesting. Thank you for the info...
MGa July 25, 2008 1:16 PM
I like that there will be some sort of "moderated collaboration" but curious to see how this plays out - hopefully each niche will not end up with their own DIGG mafia or should I say "Knol Mafia". :)
Matthew Hunt August 19, 2008 1:09 PM
Hi there.
Thanks for the info. That sounds like a really good. I'll check that out.
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