Google has developed a new online encyclopedia

Internet giant Google is working on its own version of online encyclopedia, which will be created and maintained by volunteers. The company does not hide the fact that in this instance, intend to compete with the already recognized as a leader in the field of on-line system of Wikipedia, which is just as Google is among the ten most visited sites on the Internet.

The new service called Knol, and today he is under a limited test. According to the vice -president of engineering Udi Manber Google, the name comes from the English Knol Knowledge ( Knowledge).

... People who are familiar with this or that subject knowledge, and it is connected can be described in the article and will be the users and authors Knol ', - he says. Also, the company reported that Knol will be maintained as the company itself and the user community.

' There are millions of users with different knowledge and willing to share them, there are billions of people who will find this knowledge useful ' - said Manber.

But it would be a Knol and Wikipedia, and one significant difference. If you edit articles in Wikipedia can be any user, and the service comes from the fact that they are more familiar with the subject of articles than its author, in the case with Knol will be able to edit the article only service administrators, and the author of articles.

In addition, as part of Knol authors, working with the service, will have to start your own pages. ... In any book is the author, published in a journal article and is the author. But in the case in the case of Web standards such as it turned out that the names are not necessary ...

The company also assured that the list covered by the service will not, you can write about anything and express their views freely. Google is planning to introduce a system of moderation or otherwise change the contents of the article. ...

There will be another difference from the Knol Wikipedia, if the latest news articles together administrators, on the Knol article, even if they are one and the same will not be merged. In addition, the authors will in their pages to advertise and receive royalties from it.

At present, experts do not make any predictions about the success or failure of Knol, since on the one hand for this service is giant Google, on the other side of Wikipedia in their field has been called almost a household word, according to statistics, visit this resource is about a third of the Internet .
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