Knolus

Given that the site contains an enormous amount of information, Google has facilitated access to it giving us good search utilities. But not everything is written or organized to be easily discovered. There are millions of people with useful knowledge and wanting to share them, and there are billions of people who could benefit from it. According to Google not shared because of their difficulty, so their challenge now is to find a way of helping people to do so.

In fact, as always, have already begun to invite a selected group of people to test the BETA of this new tool “Google Knol”, in order to encourage people who know a subject to write an article about it . The tool is under development and this is the first phase of testing that can be used only by invitation.

The key idea is to highlight the authors, the projects are authors, the authors have books, articles have authors, and on the web also want to stress to authors, so users can make better use of the contents of the website. Google offers easy-to-use tools for writing, editing, as well as hosting the content and writers just have to write.

At the same time Google Knol take tools community. People may send comments, questions, edit, add additional content, and so on. Anyone can rate a Knol or write an analysis on it. Knols also include references or links to additional information.

When finalize testing will open participation but we can not expect that all the content is of high quality, it will be interesting to see hsata that this control point. Then a photo of the preliminary version: