{"id":4600,"date":"2008-07-24T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T13:27:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-07-24T15:27:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-24T13:27:00","slug":"google-launches-wikipedia-rival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/4600-google-launches-wikipedia-rival.html","title":{"rendered":"Google launches Wikipedia rival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Search engine giant Google yesterday took the wraps off its latest project: a Wikipedia clone. The new project is called Knol (<a href=\"http:\/\/knol.google.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/knol.google.com<\/a>) and, like Wikipedia, is based on user submissions.<\/p>\n<p>Google originally announced the new project seven months ago but only made it available to a select, invitation-only, group of contributors. Yesterday the company opened the site to all users and those with Google usernames will be able to start contributing immediately. <\/p>\n<p>On the official Google blog the company says that &quot;the key principle behind Knol is authorship. Every knol will have an author (or group of authors) who put their name behind their content. It&#8217;s their knol, their voice, their opinion. We expect that there will be multiple knols on the same subject, and we think that is good.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Knol also builds in a way for contributors to work together. Called &quot;moderated collaboration&quot; it allows any reader to make suggested edits to a knol which the author may then choose to accept, reject, or modify before these contributions become visible to the public. &quot;This allows authors to accept suggestions from everyone in the world while remaining in control of their content,&quot; Google said.<\/p>\n<p>Google is also hoping to monetise the new project by allowing knol authors to choose whether they want Google&#8217;s AdSense advertising on the pages of the knol. &quot;If an author chooses to include ads, Google will provide the author with a revenue share from the proceeds of those ad placements.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=128478\"><strong>Google Knol discussion<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Search giant sets its sights on building Wikipedia clone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}