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Google is building its own Wikipedia

Category: Education
Posted on: December 15, 2007 5:26 PM, by Greg Laden

Google is building its own version of communally-constructed online encyclopedia Wikipedia, which consistently ranks among the most visited websites in the world.

The Internet search powerhouse is inviting chosen people to test a free service dubbed "knol," to indicate a unit of knowledge, vice president of engineering Udi Manber said Friday in a posting at Google's website.

"Our goal is to encourage people who know a particular subject to write an authoritative article about it," Manber wrote.

"There are millions of people who possess useful knowledge that they would love to share, and there are billions of people who can benefit from it."

While Wikipedia lets visitors make changes to its online pages, trusting that people with accurate information will correct errors and misleading entries, Google is inviting folks to author their own articles.

Pictures of authors will be displayed on their knol web pages, according to a sample provided by Google.

"We believe that knowing who wrote what will significantly help users make better use of web content," Manber wrote.

"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."

Google hopes knols will be written on all conceivable topics and says it has no plans to edit or endorse content. Editorial responsibility will rest with authors, whose reputations will be at stake, according to Manber.


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Sounds cool, hopefully there will be knols and or a wiki for research papers that have failed to be published. That way research will not be wasted.

Posted by: nick | December 17, 2007 2:52 AM

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Hiiii
Do you know about www.slideworld.org , they do provide powerpoint slide presentation on various latest technology ,new upcoming fields .Interesting site ......must visit ,very helpful

Posted by: jane | July 7, 2008 11:39 PM

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