Knol is Google’s unit of knowledge or an authoritative article about a specific topic. This is an online publishing service which is launched by Google. This is Mountain View-based publishing and reference service. Knol makes it easy for user to write and share knowledge with the world and also can make money from articles they write on specific topics.They can publish their articles by attaching their names to entries.
They can also run Google’s sold ads with their entries and can share the revenue.

Readers can also participiate in this online publishing service by pointing entries which they think are inappropriate or copyright protected.

Knol, is a best platform to read and write articles on all kinds of subjects.

It acomplishes your need of creating a small info site by writing for a particuler or specific subject. For every article you can also choose your licensing, your collaboration, and your advertising model.

User need a google account to write on a particuler topic in Knol. User wil find a typical Google editor layout When he/she wil log-in (knol.google.com) his/her google account.

There are 3 global settings in Knol which can be choose by users own wish :

1. Licensing - You can specify the license for each knol you write for sharing and adapting your Knol The default license for a new knol is CC Attribution. A creator can also choose CC Attribution-NonCommercial or All Rights Reserved.

2. Default collaboration model - With the help of this user can change the way of collaboration of readers on knols.

a. Open Collaboration - Choose this option if you want to have your article content wil modified by any one of reader. These changes will be immediately public.

b. Moderated Collaboration - Go for this option if you would like to accept suggestions from your readership, but you would like to review them before they are incorporated into your knol. Because in this any readership with knol account can suggest modifications and corrections to your knol. But these changes will not appear publically until you or another author accept it.

c. Closed Collaboration - If you want the group of co-authors you selected to be able to modify your knol, Choose this option. Changes wil be immediately public.

3. Advertising model : User can choose advertising model for every article. Users can connect an article to their AdSense account – this triggers a verification process. This advertising program is run by Google. This enables user to place content-relevant advertisements on knol. User can generate revenue from these ads on PPC basis.

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