Submission + - Google develops Wikipedia rival (news.com)
eswarjj writes: "Search and advertising giant Google is developing a user-generated online encyclopedia that could rival Wikipedia. Google has named the encyclopedia the "knol project," a knol being a "unit of knowledge," according to a blog post by Google engineering vice president Udi Manber. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/encouraging-people-to-contribute.html"