The system will centre around authored articles created with a tool Google has dubbed "knol" - the word denotes a unit of knowledge - that will make webpages with a distinctive livery to identify them as authoritative.BBC NEWS | Technology | Google debuts knowledge project
Urgh! New made up word 'a knol'. How on earth can you have a unit of knowledge which is quantifiable and measurable in any truly meaningful way? Not only are Google jumping on the Wikipedia bandwagon a few years too late, now they're inventing words like some third-rate web 2.0 company. Think I'll be keeping my 'knols' to myself unless Google manages to put out something pretty special...
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