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Condé Nast is partnering with Google on the search engine giant’s new, Wikipedia-like encyclopedia, called Knol.  The publisher will allow writers of articles — or Knols — to include New Yorker cartoon without charge.  Google’s Knol encyclopedia differs from Wikipedia in at least two respects; it highlights the names of contributors and enables them to [...]

The web colosus has begun beta-testing a new, knowledge-sharing service called “knol,” which sounds a lot like Wikipedia, albeit with a couple of twists.  The first is Google’s stated goal of highlighting the content providers (called writers or authors in other media) and the second is incorporating advertising into the service, and sharing revenue from that advertising with the content providers (who [...]