Google Knol , a new service out from the bucket of Google. Google Knol is all about Information gathering and knowledge sharing. Many people around the world will gather some really useful information and will serve this information to billions of internet users by using Google Knol. On the other hand, those billions of people will receive this useful information. It's a collaborative effort. According to Google, Knol is a unit of knowledge, where you will write article about any specific topic say "Energy saving" or "How to play football" etc. The interface of Google Knol is very simple and they have provided easy navigations. Knol editor is more close to GooglePages rather than Wikipedia. Google Knol is in beta so lots more improvements we can see in near future. Knol is based on the concept of authors; Every Knol will have an author or a group of authors. Author is the person who is responsible for the content he created on Knol. The best thing about Knol is moderated collobaration. It can be explained in this way- Suppose you write an article on "Way of Success" and someone else say the reader of your article, who has some good information about this topic or he has some correction about what you wrote in your article. He can suggest you possible edit and you as an author can accept, reject or modify this contribution and then publish it for everyone to view. Knol is not just writing an article, It hass lots more fun. Google Knol provides healthy interaction between authors and readers. You have options such as Comments, Ratings, and Reviews. And the best is Google Adsense. Yes, Google Adsense. You have option to put Google ads in your knol. Author can generate some revenue out of Knol. What are you waiting for? Google Knol is here. It’s your ultimate destination for knowledge sharing. If you love Wikipedia, you will love Google Knol. And keep in mind that Knol is not Wikipedia Killer as many people started saying. Both aims to share knowledge but there are differences. Many people may find Knol much more interesting than Wikipedia and some may find Wikipedia better. That's personal choice. Google Knol can be accessed from http://knol.google.com/. Enjoy Google Knol.
I just found out about it this weekend when surfing various blogs. The blog had an entry from July and oddly I never even heard about Knol. Apparently, it looks like a authority article attempt aimed at competing with Wikipedia. I think wherever there is more support by more contributors, that site will be better. And currently the better site is wikipedia. I don't see that changing any time soon unless Google purposely drops them in the serps.