Knol - Google’s Version of an Article Directory
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) launched last July 23 a new service called Google Knol. The way I see it, this is just a glorified article directory where anybody can write an article and post it as a knol.
There are many opinions about Google Knol and its purpose. Some people say it is meant to be a direct competition of Wikipedia. Some say it will look more like about.com where the articles are based on the author’s expertise.
What’s nice about Google Knol is that authors can paste their adsense codes and monetize their knol. As mentioned in their Terms of Service
Knol provides Owners the option of allowing Google-placed advertisements to appear alongside their knols through AdSense for Content, Google’s content-targeted advertising program
Just like wikipedia, all content in google knol is protected by the Creative Commons CC-BY-3.0 license. This states that the articles in google knol can be copied, distributed, and adapted as long as proper attribution is done.
Tags: article directory, Google, google knol, knol, Wikipedia
1 opinion for Knol - Google’s Version of an Article Directory
delajoker
Jul 30, 2008 at 1:00 am
that’s very nice
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