Google plans attack on Wikipedia
The Internet giant Google is currently developing its own online encyclopedia. Unlike Wikipedia, the Google project plans to include advertising.
Internet giant Google has found a new business area in which it wants to dabble. It wants to topple Wikipedia from the encyclopaedia throne. In the official Google blog Googleblog.blogspot.com, Vice President Engineering Udi Manber has announced that the search engine company is currently developing a platform called Knol. It is intended to serve as a source of knowledge and information on the Internet, as Pressetext reports. Experts will be given the opportunity to write articles on specific terms and keywords. In contrast to Wikipedia, they can add their own name underneath. Changes by other users will only be possible if the author agrees to them beforehand. While advertising is still taboo on Wikipedia, it has been part of the plan for the Google project from the very beginning. The authors are to be given the opportunity to place advertisements on their contribution pages and thus earn a share of the revenue. According to a Google spokesperson, Knol is initially a project for the USA. A launch date has not yet been announced.
