5 posts and columns on Knol

Will Nexus One Be a Hit? Maybe. But Not Every Google Launch Lands Well.

in Social on January 6, 2010 at 12:05 am PT

Google has big plans to reinvent the mobile business, introducing its Nexus One smartphone yesterday. But the search giant has shaken up other industries before (ask any newspaper publisher). The flip side: While Google does launch lots of stuff, many of its products are now on the shelf with other dusty tech curios. Our latest slideshow illustrates this topic.
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Wooglepedia?

in News on December 14, 2007 at 11:00 am PT

Google: Embrace, Improve, Extinguish

in News on December 14, 2007 at 5:33 am PT

Embrace, improve and extinguish. That’s what Google has done to search, Web advertising, digital mapping and the like; now it plans to do it to online encyclopedias as well. Yesterday the company announced Knol (defined as a “unit of knowledge”) , its improvement on the social encyclopedia. With it, the company hopes to encourage experts [...]