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Written by 2000l, July 27th, 2008
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Five days ago, Google announced a new initiative they are calling the Knol. This post explains why I think this is a bad move as Knol currently stands.
This excerpt from the announcement sums up Knol, but of course read the whole thing:
Earlier this week, we started inviting a selected group of people to try a new, free tool that we are calling “knol”, which stands for a unit of knowledge. Our goal is to encourage people who know a particular subject to write an authoritative article about it. The tool is still in development and this is just the first phase of testing. For now, using it is by invitation only. But we wanted to share with everyone the basic premises and goals behind this project.
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