Encouraging people to contribute knowledge: I’m a little confused about this, I guess. Is Google trying to take on Wikipedia?
The challenge posed to us by Larry, Sergey and Eric was to find a way to help people share their knowledge. This is our main goal.
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.
Another post discussing this has a very telling title: Google Runs Out of Content to Monetize; Wants You to Build More
ur an idiot
NOBODY LIKES WIKIPEDIA SO OBVIOUSLY THERE TRYING TO GET RID OF IT, FOOL!!!
This is Google "partnering" with Seth Godin's Squidoo Lens concept. Why not get the prolific experts blogging about what they want and target ads at them?