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Google Knol Collaborative Knowledge Database = Universal Textbook of Medicine?

Posted on July 24, 2008

Google Knol is a free online collaborative knowledge database or an experts' wiki but not an encyclopedia. Knol is not a direct competitor of Wikipedia, at least not in its current version. Wikipedia is anonymous -- there is no single editor in charge. In contrast, Knol includes the author name in the URL of the article. Google expects multiple knols on one subject rather than the current Wikipedia model of one article on a subject. The term knol ( unit of knowledge ) refers to both the project and an article in the project.There is a definite focus on medical topics -- most of the 300 or so...

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