Knol is open ,finally!

Knol is open ,finally!

Posted by admin on July 24th, 2008

Before a few months Google Announced testing of a new product called Knol.Knols are authoritative articles about specific topics, written by people who know about those subjects

The web contains vast amounts of information, but not everything worth knowing is on the web. An enormous amount of information resides in people’s heads: millions of people know useful things and billions more could benefit from that knowledge. Knol will encourage these people to contribute their knowledge online and make it accessible to everyone.

The key principle behind Knol is authorship. Every knol will have an author (or group of authors) who put their name behind their content. It’s their knol, their voice, their opinion.

With Knol, a new method for authors to work together that is called “moderated collaboration.” has been introudced. With this feature, any reader can make suggested edits to a knol which the author may then choose to accept, reject, or modify before these contributions become visible to the public. This allows authors to accept suggestions from everyone in the world while remaining in control of their content. After all, their name is associated with it!

Knols include strong community tools which allow for many modes of interaction between readers and authors. People can submit comments, rate, or write a review of a knol. At the discretion of the author, a knol may include ads from our AdSense program. If an author chooses to include ads, Google will provide the author with a revenue share from the proceeds of those ad placements.

Visit Knol at http://knol.google.com

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2 Responses to “Knol is open ,finally!”

Nathaniel says:

July 24, 2008 at 11:22 pm

This is interesting, I wonder how it will do. I hope that it rises a bit, maybe this will be some competition for Wikipedia.
Pratyush says:

July 25, 2008 at 2:29 am

Google: Mere pass adsense hai, search engine hai, visitors hai, knol hai, features hai…tumhare pass kya hai ?

Wikipedia: Mere pass articles hai .