If you’re serious in making money online by writing or blogging, then you have lots of opportunity to earn much. Just recently, Google revealed its new project that has recently finished its testing phase. This project is called “Knol.”

What is “Knol “?

Knol according to Google is the short term for “Unit of knowledge”. It’s a website similar to Wikipedia and will become a direct competitor of Wikipedia in catering users with knowledge contained in it. The good thing with this new project of Google is that the authors are given due credit and recognition in all the articles published on this site. And not only that, authors are given opportunity to earn from the ads that will be published along with the articles.

Here’s part of the post of Google’s VP Engineering:

Earlier this week, we started inviting a selected group of people to try a new, free tool that we are calling “knol”, which stands for a unit of knowledge. Our goal is to encourage people who know a particular subject to write an authoritative article about it. The tool is still in development and this is just the first phase of testing. For now, using it is by invitation only. But we wanted to share with everyone the basic premises and goals behind this project.

The key idea behind the knol project is to highlight authors. Books have authors’ names right on the cover, news articles have bylines, scientific articles always have authors — but somehow the web evolved without a strong standard to keep authors names highlighted. We believe that knowing who wrote what will significantly help users make better use of web content. At the heart, a knol is just a web page; we use the word “knol” as the name of the project and as an instance of an article interchangeably. It is well-organized, nicely presented, and has a distinct look and feel, but it is still just a web page. Google will provide easy-to-use tools for writing, editing, and so on, and it will provide free hosting of the content. Writers only need to write; we’ll do the rest.

With this, I’m sure lot of us will earn more online. We’ll not just earn from our own blogs and website but also as one of the authors of the “Knol”.

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