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Google Knol – Still a big expectation?

Published by Chetan on March 4, 2008 – 10:07 am9 Comments

GoogleMany of you might be aware about the post from Udi Manber at the Official Google Blog, about the expected project from Google called as Knol(Meaning knowledge). For those who didn’t hear about this, it is going to be a wikipedia like website but not entirely similar to it. A single page will be under the control of a writer who has the rights to allow or not allow anyone to add more content etc. to the page.
And the concept was that the writer can earn by placing his own adsense code in the knol page which he creates.
This announcement was made on 13th. December 2007 and still there are no signs of its development or release from Google. They are constantly developing their network, one of their latest releases being Google sites. But Knol was just a single topic discussed by Manber and it vanished. No more news about it anywhere.

It was expected to be a big Wikipedia competitor, but would that be in the next era of the web? Wikipedia is already the world’s largest resource of content and open source and competing it would be a big task for Google, for which giving more time for its existence would have been good. But there are no Signs of launch of this tool.

Is it really going to be released atleast by the end of this year?

They say -

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.

But when would they provide and when would they do the rest? I still believe it will be one of the biggest challenge for Google to beat Wikipedia, until they use their tricks like dropping Wiki’s SERP rankings and bringing Knol pages to the top of Search results. What do you think?

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