Knolus

This week from Google have begun to invite a select group of people to try a new tool called Knol (which is supposed to be a unity of knowledge). Its aim is that people who dominate a certain subject write an article about the same since his authority to create a great repository of knowledge. Currently Knol is under development and is accessible only by invitation, as explained Google’s blog.

As can be seen from the capture, one of the hallmarks of the project is that each article will be closely linked to the author, who gets the credit for his work. The idea is that whoever becomes aware that the content is not good can write another on the same topic and compete, and the reviews and ratings for the readers decide which is better. Ojo, the authors may put AdSense on the pages of his articles in Knol.

The project is to build a highly focused Wikipedia, an encyclopedia of all human knowledge from a different approach, much more based on experts who speak with authority that collaboration of anonymous users. Knol has common features with projects like Citizendium or even Mahalo.

My first impression is that I like Knol between little and nothing. I think Google accounts have been “send a lot of traffic to Wikipedia with which we do not make money, so I believe we all stay at home and” I like much more the idea that each expert writes in his own web , with its own domain and its own hosting (and the publicity given the win, not necessarily with Google). Controlling the largest redirector traffic in the world - its search engine - the power to impose this tool on wikipedia or other projects (Mahalo own, we created pages each) is brutal. And they do it with Youtube appearing in search results and now we are going to do Knol. That it is abusing its dominance in a market for assaulting another.