Google Knol Is Open
Thursday July 24, 2008
Late last year, Google announced that they were working on a Wikipedia competitor called Knol. A Knol in this case stands for a "unit of knowledge." The program was in a closed beta, but now it is officially open for anyone.
The idea behind Knol is that authors take more responsibility for their work by putting their name on it, rather than leaving it available for anonymous editing like Wikipedia. The other idea is that Google can use this as a place to hang advertising. However, like Blogger, you can choose whether or not you display ads on Knol, and you can share in the revenue from the advertising.
Google also has an agreement with New Yorker magazine to let users legally display one New Yorker cartoon on each Knol. That's an interesting touch.
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Comments
I just posted a Knol on the sales process: http://knol.google.com/k/gary-hart/the-definition-of-the-sales-process/1to02vzwrdtfl/2#
There was nothing about advertising revenue sharing.
You have to register for an AdSense account, but it is in your general account settings. I found it when I played around with it the other day. I’ll have to write up a tutorial on how to add it in. Thanks for the suggestion.
Thanks!
By the way, there is be a problem with verifying identity.
I’m having problems with that, too. It will verify and then forget it or only verify for individual pages. I’m also having problems logging in from FireFox on Mac.