Google’s reply to Wikipedia
2008 January 18
Stumble it!
Knol is a project planned by Google for user-generated articles on topics ranging from “scientific concepts, to medical information, from geographical and historical, to entertainment, from product information, to how-to-fix-it instructions.”
It is a experimental website that google is working on right now with a perception of giving the authors a edge. They are focusing more on individual authors, showing their other work / pictures etc unlike Wikipedia where anyone is free to revise the articles. Knol is on invite only right now but hopefully it will be open to public sooner or later after it’s released.