Google Knol : Knowledge Sharing Open

After several months of testing, Google has finally launched the knowledge-sharing site called Knol where people can share their opinions and views about a specific topic like in Wikipedia.

Main points about the Knol –

• People can contribute their knowledge online and make it accessible to everyone with this site.
• Authorship – Every knol will have an author (or group of authors) who put their name behind their content.
• Moderated Collaboration – With this feature, any reader can make suggested edits to a knol article which the author may then choose to accept, reject, or modify before these contributions become visible to the public.
• Strong Community tools – which allow for many modes of interaction between readers and authors. People can submit comments, rate, or write a review of a knol.
• Revenue Sharing – If an author chooses to include ads, Google will provide the author with a revenue share from the proceeds of those ad placements.

So, I think, very soon..we can see many Knol articles in the search engine rankings for many popular keywords and phrases.

More here

Cheers!