Administrator Lite Posted January 17, 2008 Administrator Share Posted January 17, 2008 Google recently announced Knol, a new experimental website that puts information online in a way that encourages authorial attribution. Unlike articles for the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia, which anyone is free to revise, Knol articles will have individual authors, whose pictures and credentials will be prominently displayed alongside their work. Currently, participation in the project is by invitation only, but Google will eventually open up Knol to the public. At that point, a given topic may end up with multiple articles by different authors. Readers will be able to rate the articles, and the better an article's rating, the higher it will rank in Google's search results.Google coined the term "knol" to denote a unit of knowledge but also uses it to refer to an authoritative Web-based article on a particular subject. At present, Google will not describe the project in detail, but Udi Manber, one of the company's vice presidents of engineering, provided a cursory sketch on the company's blog site. "A knol on a particular topic is meant to be the first thing someone who searches for this topic for the first time will want to read," Manber writes. And in a departure from Wikipedia's model of community authorship, he adds that "the key idea behind the Knol project is to highlight authors." View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoKz Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 Wikipedia Link... ahahah a lil competition with the two going on... well not really but google has a whole bunch of info and i think will be a semi succes lol thanks for the news Lite :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dock98 Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 Wikipedia Link... ahahah a lil competition with the two going on... well not really but google has a whole bunch of info and i think will be a semi succes lol thanks for the news Lite :)i think google is trying to take over everything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoKz Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 Wikipedia Link... ahahah a lil competition with the two going on... well not really but google has a whole bunch of info and i think will be a semi succes lol thanks for the news Lite :)i think google is trying to take over everythingWell said dock98 :pirate: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zer0buRn Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 Pinky: "Gee Brain, what do you want to do tonight?"The BrainGoogle: "The same thing we do every night, Pinky—Try to take over the world." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoKz Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 Pinky: "Gee Brain, what do you want to do tonight?"The BrainGoogle: "The same thing we do every night, Pinky—Try to take over the world."I use to watch them... lol thats funny they tried and tried... :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marik Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 thank you but I think I'll stick with wiki :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman123 Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 Well, seeing as how wikipedia isn't 100% correct and gives regular people the chance to put in fake information, I don't go there as much anymore, so hopefully the google one isn't like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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