WikiGoogle or GooglePedia? Nope, it is Knol actually.

Courtesy DaniWeb IT Discussion Community (Featured Entries)  Thu, 07/24/2008 - 07:30

It has been a long time coming, and the subject of much online speculation as a result, but now Google has finally officially launched Knol.

Google seems to be positioning this as less alternative to, and more complimentary with, Wikipedia. "Knols are authoritative articles about specific topics" Google says "written by people who know about those subjects." Which sounds very much like Wikipedia, apart from the 'people who know about those subjects' bit in many cases of course.

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