| Knol, Google's Wikipedia, is Now Online |
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The project was announced in December 2007. Knol, the collaborative encyclopaedia - on the model of Wikipedia - was officially launched yesterday by Google. The difference, compared to Wikipedia, is pushing subject-expert authors (currently online are mostly health related issues), who publish an article on a topic, article which can be noted and commented upon by the community, but its author can decide if it can be amended by a third person or not. If an author agrees to put in place advertisements around its subject, he will receive a percentage. Google has also signed an agreement with the New Yorker magazine that gives authors the option to add a cartoon by article. Welcome to this new tool, whose future will tell whether its business model is complementary or a competitor to that of Wikipedia...
Sources: - http://knol.google.com/ |
