Will Google’s Knol become the next Wikipedia?

Google has launched its Wikipedia-killer to the world. Will they succeed? Last week Google made its new site, Knol, open to all the world. Until then only beta-testers had been able to read and contribute. Knol lets anyone write an article about any topic of interest. Then readers may make comments and rate the article. They may also may suggest addition and rewrites, but the first author retains control of the text. The author has the last word It is the empowerment of the first author read

Cuil launches today from some disenfranchised Google Employees, according to the Associated Press. In the article, founder Anna Patterson says that Google has looked virtually unchanged for the last 10 years and talks about the magazine like spread of the search. After I searched for "flat classroom" I got this page that said it had "14,431 results." When I search Google, this is my result of over 4 million results. When I compare the two -- the top two on Google are actually from the projec read
New search engine Cuil (pronounced "cool") launched last night, the brainchild of ex-Google employees. From the info page, Rather than rely on superficial popularity metrics, Cuil searches for and ranks pages based on their content and relevance. When we find a page with your keywords, we stay on that page and analyze the rest of its content, its concepts, their inter-relationships and the page's coherency. Then we offer you helpful choices and suggestions until you find the page you want read
A new search engine has been launched by former Google and IBM engineers, claiming to have the largest index of sites on the web. read
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