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NYTimes.com: Google’s Knol could compete with online content publishers

August 13th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted by Laura Oliver in Editors' pick, Online Journalism, Search, google

Google's recently launched online encyclopedia Knol is causing concern among other online publishers, who fear the company's business as a search engine could come into conflict with its new 'content publishing' venture. Google maintains that it is not creating content - posts to Knol are signed and edited by individual users - but acting as a 'conduit' on the web. Full story...

Tags: google, Knol, online encyclopedia, online publishers, search engine

Official Google Blog: Google launches Wikipedia rival Knol

July 25th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted by Laura Oliver in Editors' pick, google

Knols will be individual article pages with multiple authors, who will put their name to the content.

Multiple Knols can exist for one topic.

A partnership with the New Yorker will allow users to add cartoons from the magazine’s archive to Knols.

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