abstract:Knol was a Google project that aimed to include user-written articles on a range of topics. The project was led by Udi Manber of Google, announced December 13, 2007, and was opened in beta to the public on July 23, 2008 with a few hundred articles mostly in the health and medical field.
On Friday, the search engine announced the creation of "Knol, " a project that allows users to create their own Wikipedia-like pages on specific subjects.