The end of Wiki ?

The official Google blog has a new post about a new project that’s in closed, private beta.

The program is called Knols, or “units of knowledge.”

Knols participants will write reference pages on any topic, using a Google content creation tool apparently in the works, and those pages will be highlighted in Google search results.

Authors will choose whether they want ads to appear and will receive a “substantial revenue share.”

Knols Project: Google Experimenting With User Generated Encyclopedic Pages

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/encouraging-people-to-contribute.html

This has the potential to be very big!

Marc Liron
Microsoft MVP
www.marcliron.com