Knol is a Google project which aims to include user-written articles on a range of topics. The project was led by Udi Manber of Google, it was announced on December 13, 2007 and was opened in beta to the public on July 23, 2008[3] with a few hundred articles mostly in the health and medical field. On January 16, 2009, Google announced that Knol had grown to 100,000 articles, and users from 197 countries and territories visit Knol on an average day.
The term knol, which Google defines as a "unit of knowledge".Any contributors can create (and own) new knols, and there can be multiple articles on the same topic, each written by a different author.
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The term knol, which Google defines as a "unit of knowledge".Any contributors can create (and own) new knols, and there can be multiple articles on the same topic, each written by a different author.
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