Move Over Wikipedia Knol is Here
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There isn’t much that Google won’t do. It acquired Blogger sometime ago and now it is presenting a competition to a very popular site in the Internet – Knol. Is it a Wikipedia wannabe? Is it any better or more of the same?
The range of Knol topics is very wide. It will feature medical information, entertainment, product information, how-tos, historical articles… name it and it will probably be on the list. I wonder what innovation Google will put on the Knol website? Will they pay contributors? Hmmm… that would be amazing! hahah.
Well, I can use Knol to write about movies, Philippine cinema, independent film, and movie reviews.
Check out the Knol snapshot below.
Dang! Knol is another project by Google geared for more domination in the Internet. I wonder what is gonna happen to Wikipedia. After all, Google has a history of taking a concept, spicing it up with innovations here and there and voila! It dominates the competition.
Knol Beta was launched on July 23, 2008 with just a few hundred knols, or knowledge unit. I wonder who thought of Knol. Is it really a word or just a cooked up word like pentium?
According to the Official Google blog:
The key idea behind the knol project is to highlight authors. Books have authors’ names right on the cover, news articles have bylines, scientific articles always have authors — but somehow the web evolved without a strong standard to keep authors names highlighted. We believe that knowing who wrote what will significantly help users make better use of web content. At the heart, a knol is just a web page; we use the word “knol” as the name of the project and as an instance of an article interchangeably. It is well-organized, nicely presented, and has a distinct look and feel, but it is still just a web page. Google will provide easy-to-use tools for writing, editing, and so on, and it will provide free hosting of the content. Writers only need to write; we’ll do the rest.
Let’s observe and let’s try to wait for what will happen to Knol. It is based on Wiki, the software on which Wikipedia.org and WikiPilipinas are built on.
Sigh. This is gonna be a Wiki warfare I suppose. Who’s gonna win it? I hope we, the consumers, will be the winners!
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