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[Live Crunch] Google Launched Knol Wikipedia Style: Google launched Knol which could possibly be competitor to Wikipedia. Knol is known as online publishing website where registered users can publish information about anything they like.
[Lifehacker: not Mac OS X, not Vista] Google Knol Opens Its Doors, Challenges Wikipedia: Google's Wikipedia competitor, Google Knol, officially opens its doors today. The site is already populated with several knols (definition: "an authoritative article about a specific topic"), but anyone can create their own knol as of .
[CNET News.com] Google's Wiki rival Knol open to the public: Google says Knol authors can also add New Yorker magazine cartoons to their pages and make money off ads.
[Daily SearchCast - Search Engine News Recap] Daily SearchCast, July 23, 2008: Google Launches Knol - Should ...: Google is introducing an Elections Search Gadget that allows users to search transcripts of political speeches and videos that appear on YouTube candidate channels. The speech recognition technology (also shared with Goog411) produces a transcript of the videos, which can then searched by users of the Gadget to find precise...
[Madhur Kapoor's Blog] Google Launches Knol, Wikipedia Competitor: ”˜Knol’ requires the authors to identify themselves to help the audience assess the source’s credibility which was not the case with Wikipedia. Google doesn’t intend to screen the submissions for accuracy and instead will rely on its search formulas to highlight the articles that readers believe are credible.
[Read/writeweb News] Knol: Google Takes on Wikipedia: Knol, of course, has far fewer articles now than Wikipedia, but as it grows, it will be interesting to watch if Google is going to give preference to its own pages over the Wikipedia results. After all, Knol carries Google advertising and Wikipedia doesn't, so Google would clearly have an incentive in doing so, though the potential public outcry if Google would try to do this might prevent them from even attempting it.
[News.com - Digital Media] Google's Wiki rival Knol open to the public: Google's Wikipedia competitor, Knol, is now open to the public, according to the Official Google Blog. Knols are articles about specific topics written by experts on that subject.
[TheMediaSiTE BitTorrent Community] Google launches Knol, Wikipedia competition: Knol focuses on individual authors or groups of authors in contrast to Wikipedia’s subject entries, which are updated by users and edited behind the scenes. DuPont said that rather than competing with Wikipedia, Knol may end up serving as a primary source of authoritative information for use with Wikipedia articles.
[ScienceRoll] Google vs Wikipedia? No!: The Knol project is a site that hosts many knols ”” units of knowledge ”” written about various subjects. The authors of the knols can take credit for their writing, provide credentials, and elicit peer reviews and comments.
[Uploads from See-ming Lee æŽæ€æ˜Ž SML] Knol = Google's Wikipedia / 2008-07-24 / SML Screenshots: knol.google.com Key differences between Knol + Wikipedia: + Knol's articles are owned by the authors + Google ads can be optionally served on Knol using AdSense + Single means of navigation on Knol: search + Articles are author-centric: .
[ProBlogger Blog Tips] Google’s Knol - A Wikipedia Killer or a Blog Killer?: I’ve come across a number of people lately who have gone full time (or close to it) using Squidoo to publish articles and monetize them. They’ve build up profiles and search rankings for their Squidoo pages to the point that they’re able to generate significant incomes via advertising and affiliate revenue.
[The Wikipedia Blog] 5 mistakes Google made with Knol: I’ve taught my children never to use Wikipedia for anything school related and to always assume Wikipedia articles are wrong unless they find independent confirmation for each fact. Perhaps if folks like yourself focused more on content quality and how people use sites like Wikipedia and Knol and less on superficialities that dress up a pig to look like a princess, there wouldn’t be such a desperate need for something like Knol purports to be.
[Sightings Design Blog] Wikipedia has a challenger”¦Knol launched: I will be playing with Knol a bit, the big question is even though they have a slick look will they be able to pull a “brain drain” on Wikipedia and amass as much information as Wikipedia?
[Tech blog] Google Offers Knol, a Wikipedia Copy with Attribution (NewsFactor): Knol will encourage these people to contribute their knowledge online and make it accessible to everyone," Google product manager Cedric Dupont and Google software engineer Michael McNally wrote on the corporate blog.
[Streamxy - The Next Internet Rush] Google Knol: A Blog Killer Or Wikipedia Killer?: Google announced the launch of Knol on 23 July 2008, a Wikipedia-esque site that hosts articles from contributors. Google hopes the articles become among the most authoritative on the Web ”” which represents a direct challenge to media .
[Search Engine Consultants Weblog] Google launch Knol - the Wikipedia Killer: “KNOL” Yet another move by the Dark Lords of the internet’ Google. This obvious move is an attempt to move deeper into the world of online research as they attempt to knock Wikipedia off their perch.
[Celebrity gossip juicy celebrity rumors Hollywood gossip blog from Perez Hilton] Google vs. Wikipedia: It's War!: Additionally, wikipedia does NOT accept advertising…that means that information can't be changed/challenged b/c an advertiser doesn't like it. keep Wikipedia alive, and keep it free…..their motto: "Creating a Global community where everyone has free access to information and education, regardless of how much money they have, or where they can from"
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