Google is working on a product called “Knol” — a sort of competitor to online, nonprofit encyclopedia Wikipedia. While Wikipedia lets anyone edit its articles, Google’s Knol is encouraging “people who ...

Last night on the official Google blog, Udi Manber, vice president of engineering, announced that Google is testing a publishing platform called Knol. It's being compared to Wikipedia and Mahalo.

Google Inc., expanding its efforts at providing software that helps users create and post their own materials on the Internet, has acquired a California startup that develops online collaboration ...