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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 [...]