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Get the NewsletterGoogle Creates Knol: Invites Users to Share Knowleddge
Google has decided that it needs to get deeper into the knowledge management business! They have announced a new free tool called knol- still in beta - that enables authors who know a lot about a particular subject to write about it. Knol is Wikipedia, but with perks! (meaning it could be paid).
Knol stands for “unit of knowledge” and is used to describe both the project and an instance of an article. Currently, it's still in testing to a limited “invitation only” number of people.
Knol is similar to wikipedia. People with a lot of knowledge on a particular topic can write about it. So why is Google doing this? They say it's because they want to help people share their knowledge; it's about highlighting authors themselves. Google doesn't believe everything is written down and that what is isn't necessarily organized well enough for searchers to discover it. Man these guys are smart!
The basic format of knol is a web page. Authors will get tools for writing and editing content on the web page. Knol will be hosted by Google and will include a number of community tools like comments, questions, edits, ratings, reviews, references and links to additional information. The author's knol can even include ads! Google will provide “substantial revenue share” from the ads to the author.
Knols will cover all sorts of topics: technology, science, medicine, how-tos, history, entertainment - you name it. Google will not provide editorial support. What this means is “reader beware”! Anyone can write about anything, more than one person can write about a topic. The key here is that the author is known, so Google assumes they will do their best to be correct in their dissemination of knowledge.
Participation in knols will be open to all when it goes live. Google will ensure that knols are ranked appropriately in their Search indexes. They will make the content available to any search engine and will not request exclusivity of any content.
Take a look and see a preliminary view of a knol and give us your opinion on this new Google application that will soon see the light!
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Sounds like a big one. I gotta go check this out...
I love this article except for the part where it reads "Knol is wikipedia" yikes! Don't ruin knol by saying anything like that. You are to say "Knol is a competitor to Wicrapedia with a strong lead over Wicrapedia!" Simple as that! Folks, a site like Wikipedia that allows random stupid people to get away with whatever they want is just a "bad website" that can easily be outdone. Plain and simple.
Wikipedia's edge is the fact that GOOGLE (which is now their opponent) was giving them in edge in giving them some high search results. I am not going to lie. I was actually stupid enough to be a member of Wikipedia for over a year so I know how bad the website sucks.
When I think back on the stalking, obnoxious, and constant harassing psycho-dork editors, like Ckatz as a prime example ( http://malaysia.answers.yahoo.com/my/profile?show=OelcUGJNaa ) and even worse random unfair psycho dorks who the site allows to be administrators, like that dimwitted dork Robert Ullmann (More on him here : http://malaysia.answers.yahoo.com/my/profile?show=cynx29tUaa ) it just blows my mind. Trust me, after using Wicrapedia, you will ask yourself at some point 'why did I just put all my time into all this hard work only to put up with this garbage from these idiots?" The idiots I dealt with (Chatz, Robert Ullmann, Isotope23 (how ironic that he recently just left the site after being accused of an unfair ban on some other user if you check out his page as of Jan 2nd), Ryulong, Spebi, Kwsn, etc)
About Google is releasing its own version of Wikipedia in late 2008. “Knol” was only the codename for this project.
According to some sources, the actual name is “Unipedia”
Sounds like a better name than “knol”.
I quite like the idea that Unipedia will share revenue of any ads with the authors.
As for wikiasearch, load of rubbish.