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Open Web Developer News Desk Ulitzer vs Knol - Google Wants Its Own Wikipedia
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has been working on a for-profit Wikia search engine due out any minute now
By: Maureen O'Gara
Jan. 6, 2007 11:45 AM
Contributors, who are supposed to sign their pieces, not be anonymous like Wikipedia - a good thing - will be able to monetize their individually written, Creative Commons-licensed articles with ads, sharing the revenues with Google.
Google will provide the tools and rank entries. Fact checking will supposedly be left to the readers - (who will go to the library and look things up in a book?).
Wikipedia currently has 8.2 million articles written in 200 languages.
Tit for tat, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has been working on a for-profit Wikia search engine due out any minute now.
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