After proving itself the brand to beat for search, email, maps and a stock of other applications, now Google is developing “knol”, a community-built encyclopedia that highlights the ...

Search and advertising giant Google is developing a user-generated online encyclopaedia that could rival Wikipedia. Google has named the scheme the "knol project", a knol being a "unit of knowledge", ...

From the start, Google and Wikipedia have been in a kind of unspoken partnership: Wikipedia produces the information Google serves up in response to user queries, and Google builds up Wikipedia’s ...

Google is developing an online publishing platform where people can write entries on subjects they know, an idea that’s close to Wikipedia’s user-contributed encyclopedia but with key differences. The ...