Google's joined the race to create the perfect wiki, with Knol.
And just like Wikipedia, and Britannica, it's introducing a few new ways to create content.
There is 'moderated collaboration,' for instance. Which sounds a lot like the concept behind the edit pages of Wikipedia. probably less edit wars, since the author has to approve the changes for them to go live. Brave authors could however permit edits without approval. The really daring ones will be able to link their entries with advertising to earn some income via AdSense. I can see that feature alone quickly tarnish the value of this wiki as marketers rush in.
Maybe this is Google2 â€" a move to create a parallel search engine that pretends to be a wiki.
Check the wiki-slayer here.
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