Google is launching a new effort to capture human knowledge on the Web, test-driving Google Knol, a Web-publishing approach that is drawing comparisons to Wikipedia. A “knol,” according to Google, is a unit of information or knowledge, and the new publishing platform is being tested by individuals who have been invited to take part in a beta version, the search giant said Thursday. Udi Manber, a vice president of engineering at Google, said in a post to the official Google blog that the aim of Knol is to help bring some order to the vast amount of human knowledge being shared online.
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Google’s Knol Initiative – the Unwiki?
Posted by: Keith Regan December 14, 2007 02:07 PMGoogle is launching a new effort to capture human knowledge on the Web, test-driving Google Knol, a Web-publishing approach that is drawing comparisons to Wikipedia. A “knol,” according to Google, is a unit of information or knowledge, and the new publishing platform is being tested by individuals who have been invited to take part in a beta version, the search giant said Thursday. Udi Manber, a vice president of engineering at Google, said in a post to the official Google blog that the aim of Knol is to help bring some order to the vast amount of human knowledge being shared online.