socialmedian: Google Knol Opens Up To Other Languages

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Oct 30, 2008

Summary

Google Knol, which we’ve likened to a monetizable Wikipedia upon launch, has quietly released three international versions today, enabling French, German and Italian speaking experts (or people who like to think they are experts) to contribute so-called ‘units of knowledge’ to the site.

The success of Google Knol has been less than stellar (traffic is stagnating) and the site is often criticized for featuring articles that are simply not accurate. To be fair, Knol has only been released for about four months, and It obviously takes more time than that to build a repository of the world’s collective knowledge.

Expanding into other countries could give Google some more momentum and increase the numbers of expert articles significantly over time.

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