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.

This story was written by David Kaplan. After several months in beta, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is giving its content site Knol its wide release. While the site appears to be a challenge to Wikipedia, ...