This could actually be a product of their acquisition of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JotSpot">JotSpot</a> - a structured wiki for small/medium sized businesses.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 14, 2007 1:46 PM, Barry Canton <
<a href="mailto:bcanton@mit.edu">bcanton@mit.edu</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Google is testing a new project that sounds like an attempt to compete with Wikipedia.
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/encouraging-people-to-contribute.html" target="_blank">
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/encouraging-people-to-contribute.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>An interesting sentence - "<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial;">
At the discretion of the author, a knol may include ads. If an author chooses to include ads, Google will provide the author with substantial revenue share from the proceeds of those ads."</span><br clear="all"><br>
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<br>Barry Canton<br>Endy Lab<br>Biological Engineering Division<br>Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br><br>Tel.:(617) 401-7320 (Grand Central)<br>Email1: <a href="mailto:bcanton@mit.edu" target="_blank">bcanton@mit.edu
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<a href="mailto:bcanton@gmail.com" target="_blank">bcanton@gmail.com</a>
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