Google Knol, the Wikipedia-like service that was released in its first alpha phase in December last year is now available to everyone.
The web contains vast amounts of information, but not everything worth knowing is on the web. An enormous amount of information resides in people's heads: millions of people know useful things and billions more could benefit from that knowledge.
At its heart, Google says Knol is just a web page where authors can create topics, and link to articles and content but layered onto the Knol page are various community tools so readers will be able to submit comments, questions, edits, additional content, and so on.
The screenshot below shows a sample page from Knol.
The web contains vast amounts of information, but not everything worth knowing is on the web. An enormous amount of information resides in people's heads: millions of people know useful things and billions more could benefit from that knowledge.
At its heart, Google says Knol is just a web page where authors can create topics, and link to articles and content but layered onto the Knol page are various community tools so readers will be able to submit comments, questions, edits, additional content, and so on.
The screenshot below shows a sample page from Knol.
Overall, suspicions about Google favoring its own results and once again stepping outside the bounds of its famous "don't be evil" mantra are understandable. We'll be keeping an eye on Google's search results and the development of Knol now that it's open to the public.
1 comments:
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