Voices » Knol http://voices.allthingsd.com from other Web sites Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:09:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/logo-rss.jpg All Things Digital http://allthingsd.com/ 144 22 Chuck Knol http://voices.allthingsd.com/20080924/manjoo/ http://voices.allthingsd.com/20080924/manjoo/#comments Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:00:27 +0000 Farhad Manjoo http://voices.allthingsd.com/?p=4204 By Farhad Manjoo, Technology Columnist, Slate

There are two articles about Sarah Palin on Google Knol, the search company’s abysmal new Wikipedia-like reference guide. One of them is a mess: Just a few hundred words long, the article is fraught with factual and grammatical errors. The other Palin entry is much more readable and informative, offering a thorough, balanced look at Palin’s years in city and state government and her positions on national political issues.

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After six months of testing, Google is letting the public start using Knol, its effort to build an authoritative reference out of user contributions. When it was announced late last year, Knol sounded like a cross between the anyone-can-edit give and take of Wikipedia and the individual contributions of expertise found on Squidoo, and that’s the way it’s shaping up.

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