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Official Google Blog: Encouraging people to contribute knowledge
Blogged on December 14th, 2007, 11:23 am | 11 months 9 days ago
"...free tool that we are calling "knol", which stands for a unit of knowledge. Our goal is to encourage people who know a particular subject to write an authoritative article about it."
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