Google Unleashes Knol But Promises Not To Compete With Wikipedia

Google, in a continuing its efforts to streamline product offerings, has announced its decision to axe more online products. What the company has termed as its 'off-season spring cleaning' started when Google co-founder...

Google's purported answer to Wikipedia, Knol, appears to be all but dead just over three years after it was announced by the search engine giant, with a number of circumstances contributing to its slow and gradual demise. The...

Social networking giant Facebook has announced on its official blog that the company will be soon rolling out a new feature for the social network, called 'Community Pages'. This will contain information about topics that are...

After several years of lingering in the shadow of Wikipedia, Microsoft has decided to close down its once very popular Encarta website and will also stop selling Student and Encarta Premium software products. On a statement on...

Encyclopedia Britannica has unveiled what could possibly be the biggest revolution in its 241 years old story as it plans to take on Wikipedia on its own turf and allow external contributors to shape the content on the online...

Online Pool of Knowledge Wikipedia may enforce new changes soon which may prevent new users to make changes on certain articles and prevent potential acts of vandalism. The issue arose after several users modified the wikipedia...

Jimmy Wales, the founder of the online pool of knowledge, Wikipedia, confirmed that Wikia search will be launched on the 7th of January - next Monday.The set includes a search application, a search algorithm and a web crawler,...

Google has been granted a patent over the concept of snippets. The patent application was filed backed in March 2004 and the abstract reads as follows:"Methods and systems for generating textual information are...

Google will launch what looks to be a formidable Wikipedia rival. Knol was announced yesterday night by Udi Manber, VP Engineering at Google.Knol is another Google attempts to convert the wealth of data available on the...