company. Google. close the Internet encyclopedia Knol, which was launched in 2007 and positioned as a competitor to ' Wikipedia '. On the decision to forgo Knol was announced in the blog Google.
Knol will run until April 30, 2012. After that date, access to articles (' knols ') will be closed, but the authors of articles will keep them on your computer in the form of text files. October 1, 2012 the project finally stop working. In what reasons it was decided to close the encyclopedia, Google does not specify.
One of the main differences from the Knol ' Wikipedia ' is that Google's encyclopedia article pages specify the names of their authors. The creators of popular articles have the opportunity to earn advertising materials within their. Knol is available in 12 languages , including Russian.
In addition to Knol, Google still refuses to. several projects. , Including a timeline of the Search Timeline, social service programs, and Friend Connect REC to support renewable energy. The company said that the ideas that underlie these projects embodied in other initiatives Google.
In 2011, Google has also decided to get rid of the search engine for social networks Aardvark, the program Google Desktop, services. Buzz. and Jaiku, an experimental web site Google Labs and several other products. The company itself describes it as ' spring cleaning '.
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