“More than half a year after first unveiling the Knol concept, Google rolled out the new Wikipedia-alternative, based on the same concept of concentrating the vast amount of information on the Web in one place for the benefit of billions of people, but with a lot of different ideas. Unlike Wikipedia, Knol supports authorship, which Google believes will help users make better use of web content and make the content more trustworthy. Furthermore, readers are encouraged to contribute not only with new articles on the same topic, but also with suggested edits to an existing knol, which the author may take into consideration, reject or modify before making it visible to the public.” (07/24/08)