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Looks Like Even Google Forgot Knol Existed
Knol, Google’s platform for sharing articles about specific topics, appears to have been shutdown. It’s unclear if this is a temporary or permanent situation. We’ve reached out to Google for comment. We’ve long been speculating as to when Google will shut down Knol. The knowledge-sharing site has essentially been reduced ...
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Google Expands Its Reference Section With Its Own Dictionary
Google has quietly rolled out its own online dictionary, complete with multilingual support and accompanying photos. The new site was first discovered by the LA Times Tech Blog, and you can access it at Google.com/Dictionary. It works exactly as you’d expect: type in a word, and Google will give ...
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Tracking Influenza: Google Flu Trends Now Covers 16 More Countries
Google just announced a major expansion of its Flu Trends program which monitors searches for Flu-related symptoms on Google's search engine to predict Flu outbreaks. Until now, Google only made the data it gathered from searches in the U.S., Mexico, Australia and New Zealand available, but now, Google has expanded ...
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Poor Google Knol Has Gone From A Wikipedia Killer To A Craigslist Wannabe
We’ve known for a while that Google’s Knol is no Wikipedia killer, but now the knowledge-sharing site is being reduced to a sad Craigslist wannabe. The original idea behind Knol was that people could collaboratively write definitive articles about any topic they like and get rewarded by earning a ...
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Why Google Knol Is No Wikipedia
This is only one data point. But at least the Wikipedia entry on TechCrunch doesn’t state that we sell corn and oat cereal, and it wasn’t written by someone whose bio simply reads “ Troll “. Other than that, it’s pretty accurate. So much for units of knowledge. ...
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Google Knol Reaches 100,000 Pages
It’s hard to believe that Google Knol’s 6th month anniversary is fast approaching. The Wikipedia direct competitor, which launched to the public back in July of 2008, is reporting that Knol users have collectively produced 100,000+ knols. That’s no small feat for a site that most of us wrote off ...
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Google Knol Opens In French, German and Italian (Update: And More)
Google Knol, which we’ve likened to a monetizable Wikipedia upon launch, has quietly released three international versions today, enabling French, German and Italian speaking experts (or people who like to think they are experts) to contribute so-called ‘units of knowledge’ to the site. Update: as commenter Francisco points out in ...
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Google Drops Some Knowledge on the Financial Crisis
When Google launched its sanitized version of Wikipedia, called Knol, earlier this year - the topics highlighted were all pretty mundane. Medical conditions, backpacking, etc. Today the company put Knols to good use and used the site to launch the first in a series of debates about ...
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Google Knol Experiments With Audio
Google Knol, a fairly recent launch in a space populated by the likes of Wikipedia and Mahalo, received considerably bad press in the last several weeks. Farhad Manjoo of Slate and Harry McCracken of Technologizer are just two individuals who’ve torn into the service as of late. So you might ...
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Google’s Knol: Evil and Doomed.
I was skeptical originally about Google’s Knol project. I was under the impression from its initial press materials and blog posts that it was to be unmonetized. That turned out to be slightly incorrect, to say the least, and the issues folks have with this project extend far beyond compensating ...
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Google Knol Launches; More Like Squidoo than Wikipedia
Google has just launched Knol to the public, dubbed by many as the search giant’s Wikipedia killer. My first reaction: not so fast. While Knol offers a way for anyone to create content about any subject, there are a few big differences. First and foremost, each “Knol†is ...
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Knol: Google Takes on Wikipedia
Google just opened up Knol, its Wikipedia competitor, to the public after announcing a private beta of the service last December. Unlike Wikipedia, Knol puts a stronger emphasis on authorship and even encourages users to start different 'knols' for the same subject. Google is also serving up AdSense advertising on ...
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