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Headline: Open Encyclopedia by Google

Website: http://knol.google.com/

Google's Knol project is a site that hosts many knols — units of knowledge — written about various subjects. The authors of the knols can take credit for their writing, provide credentials, and elicit peer reviews and comments. Users can provide feedback, comments, and related information. So the Knol project is a platform for sharing information, with multiple cues that help you evaluate the...More»

Founded: 07/2008

Industry: Consumer Internet

Sub-Industry: Content / Information

Ownership: Product

Parent Company: Google

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Bullish Opinions (6)	Author/Date	Do you agree?
deals with the criticism of wikipedia's zero accountability of article information Add Comment	irpip 08/08/2008		100% 3 votes 3 0% 0
Take Wiki's success with Google behind it...game over. 1 comment Add Comment	startupman 08/06/2008		80% 5 votes 4 20% 1
Wikipedia has such a huge lead. Google Knol has A LOT of catching up to do.	joy.t	08/06/2008
interesting no doubt Add Comment	jpaine 08/05/2008		100% 3 votes 3 0% 0
Well-credentialed knol authors Add Comment	sara 07/29/2008		100% 4 votes 4 0% 0
They seeded the site with a lot of content Add Comment	techgeek4 07/29/2008		100% 5 votes 5 0% 0
They've got Google behind it - there'll be plenty of traffic driven to this site Add Comment	techgeek4 07/29/2008		100% 5 votes 5 0% 0