Wikipedia faces tough competition from Knol

In Google they declared about the plans with respect to the creation of its own on-line- encyclopedia. Its difference from Wikipedia will become the fact that the names of the authors will be indicated for each article, and only by it it will permitted edit its content.

Now Knol is passed the closed testing at the invitations. The purpose of project, as they indicate in Google, to propose information in the wide circle of themes, including science, medicine, geography, history, entertainment and others. In Google article itself to edit they do not be going, and to voice opinions in the content - also.

In the company they calculate, that the articles in Knol will reflect different opinions and points of view of different authors; it is assumed that on many of the themes it will be on several competing with each other articles. On the completion of testing the participation in filling Knoll will be discovered for all those desiring, and, as they indicate in Google, in connection with this it cannot be designed for the fact that all articles will be the highest quality.

From the agreement of the authors in the articles it will be possible to place the advertisement from Google, by the portion of income from which company will share with the author.