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Google Knol is a feature from the search engine Google with the goal "to encourage people who know a particular subject to write an authoritative article about it."The Official Google Blog: Encouraging People to Contribute Knowledge (December 13, 2007) With Knol, Google is allowing users to write informational articles on all kinds of topics, from do-it-yoursef and how-to instructions to medical tips and information.
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Fast Facts
- Announced December 13, 2007
- Unveiled July 23, 2008
- Knol not only refers to the service, but the articles themselves are called "knols"The Official Google Blog: Encouraging People to Contribute Knowledge (December 13, 2007)
- Each knol written by a single author; multiple articles on same topic allowedThe Washington Post: Google Launches Its Challenge To Wikipedia... (July 23, 2008)
- Must have a Google account to write a knol
- Users must be at least 13 years of ageOfficial Site: Terms of Service
- Has been interpreted as Google's competitor to WikipediaThe Washington Post: Google Launches Its Challenge To Wikipedia... (July 23, 2008)
- A "Knol" is a single unit of knowledge
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"The key idea behind the knol project is to highlight authors. Books have authors' names right on the cover, news articles have bylines, scientific articles always have authors - but somehow the web evolved without a strong standard to keep authors names highlighted. We believe that knowing who wrote what will significantly help users make better use of web content."—Udi Manber, Google VP of EngineeringThe Official Google Blog: Encouraging People to Contribute Knowledge (December 13, 2007) -
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Introduction to Knol
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anyone remembers Knol, anymore? at launch time, remember it was positioned by google as the wikipedia killer..: http://twurl.nl/i4nocm
@neueKnols | November 14, 2009 02:11 PM -
anyone remembers Knol, anymore? at launch time, remember it was positioned by google as the wikipedia killer..
@arbitya | November 14, 2009 12:58 PM -
Força, Google Knol. Um dia você pode se tornar uma Wikipedia.: http://twurl.nl/1sajlc
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Sūryanamaskāra [सूर्यनमस्कार] 12 āsana-s + mantra-s in devanāgarī: link zu meinem google-Knol 30#view http://bit.ly/4iiVIV
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View All Google Knol Questions (1673) | Ask a QuestionIs this author http://knol.google.com/k/sara/sara/hrlb64ddr57w/0# allowed to profit from Mahalos articles? (2 Answers)Sara had permission from Mahalo to do so, she worked here at one point and I think we were just testing Knol out. If you plan on doing it, you ... read moreWhat is google caffeine? (3 Answers)Its Google's new improvements to the search engine on their side of things. It's a tad bit faster to load and there is a slight improvement in results. you can ... read moreHow does Google page ranking work? (1 Answer)Google page rank is based on the number of in-links to a website and the quality of those in-links. There's a weighting mechanism, which is approximately logarithmic. For example, An ... read moreWill Google Wave be more popular than Twitter? (3 Answers)I honestly do not believe so. They both target different users. Google Wave is more of a collaborative tool while twitter is a microblogging site. Google Wave has not been ... read more
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