Knol -- Google's Wikipedia?


	Knol -- Google's Wikipedia?
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12-14-2007 12:49 PM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e601af41-9664-4914-b096-6552be9fc3ab/21E57679-9573-482E-8412-96405C2A72D6/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-12-14-n19.html" href="http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-12-14-n19.html" style="font-size: 11px;">blogoscoped.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-12-14-n19.html"><H3>Google Knol</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-12-14-n19.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blogoscoped.com/img/A6327AC8-88EF-4418-9EB2-1A1B55D44042" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-12-14-n19.html"><P>“Knol”, just <A href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/encouraging-people-to-contribute.html">announced a the official Google blog</A>, is a currently private, invitation-only knowledge sharing service. Google says that a Knol is a “unit of knowledge,"* and in the style of the old-school About.com website, experts are invited to the service to write an introductory article on a subject of their expertise. Google wants to provide all the tools to write this, and host the content and so on, so that experts can focus just on the content. Then, ad revenues those pages generate can be shared.</P></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20071214/4998/" href="http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20071214/4998/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.makeyougohmm.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20071214/4998/"><H2>December 14, 2007</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20071214/4998/"><H3 id="post-4998" class="storytitle"><A rel="bookmark" href="http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20071214/4998/"><BIG>Google Knol another step toward hosting the world’s information too</BIG></A></H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20071214/4998/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.makeyougohmm.com/img/7CFFF6F0-CE58-45F5-9F98-9ABCE3586F07" alt="GOOG Stock: Amazon vs. Google in the storage wars" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://abovethenoise.blogspot.com/2007/12/googles-knol-initiative.html" href="http://abovethenoise.blogspot.com/2007/12/googles-knol-initiative.html" style="font-size: 11px;">abovethenoise.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://abovethenoise.blogspot.com/2007/12/googles-knol-initiative.html"><DIV>Google Knol is initially <A href="http://www.techmeme.com/071213/p119#a071213p119">being portrayed as a Wikipedia killer</A> and perhaps a threat to Yahoo Answers, but there is a key difference that worth noting. 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