Google lanceert eigen Wikipedia genaamd Knol

Op de blog lezen we: There are millions of people who possess useful knowledge that they would love to share, and there are billions of people who can benefit from it. We believe that many do not share that knowledge today simply because it is not easy enough to do that. The challenge posed to us by Larry, Sergey and Eric was to find a way to help people share their knowledge. This is our main goal.

Earlier this week, we started inviting a selected group of people to try a new, free tool that we are calling “knol”, which stands for a unit of knowledge. Our goal is to encourage people who know a particular subject to write an authoritative article about it. The tool is still in development and this is just the first phase of testing. For now, using it is by invitation only. But we wanted to share with everyone the basic premises and goals behind this project.

En verder: Knols will include strong community tools. People will be able to submit comments, questions, edits, additional content, and so on. Anyone will be able to rate a knol or write a review of it. Knols will also include references and links to additional information. At the discretion of the author, a knol may include ads. If an author chooses to include ads, Google will provide the author with substantial revenue share from the proceeds of those ads

Met andere woorden: als dit groots wordt gelanceed, kan het wel eens een groot succes worden. Google kan de wind uit de zeilen halen van Mahalo, de startup die (deels) hetzelfde aan het doen is. Het is niet bekend wanneer “Google Knol” of “Google Knols” live zal gaan. De eigenaren van de domeinnamen knols.com en knol.com kunnen in ieder geval zijn handen wrijven. Dit gaat veel, heel veel bezoek opleveren.

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