Jan 19
Will Google Knol Become Unipedia? And How Urgent is the Project?
Over at ZDNet, Garett Rogers has spotted some potential intel about Google Knol. Over on Google Blogoscoped’s forum, Sally claims to know somebody inside Google:
He says it is not what Google call a “GP 1″ an “urgent” project.
He was called away to work on a GP1. He says the REAL name of the project is “Google’s Universal Encyclopedia” or “Uni Pedia”.
Hmm…’unipedia’ is a pretty awful name if you ask me. One reason that Knol was probably a compelling project name was that it was pretty much a Google Whack before the project launched. Unipedia definitely isn’t.
I’ve got my own, uh, Google-related contact. Here’s the skinny from them:
The whole “more urgent” project thing is a little misleading though. Inside Google, things are put into buckets. The so-called urgent stuff is core search and ads. Everything else is lower priority. So, it goes without saying that Knol (as well as things like Gmail, Talk, etc..) are lower priority.
January 19th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
I disagree. UNIPEDIA is a MUCH more compelling name than “knol”.
Knol says nothing to me.
Knol sounds like a soap powder or something like that. Unipedia on the other hand does sound like a Universal Encyclopedia to me.
Time will tell, but unipedia has my vote.
Norman
January 19th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
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February 7th, 2008 at 9:41 am
I heard it is to be called UNIPEDIA too, quite right, knol was just an identifier for the project.
Anyway, “knol” is a bad name, doesn’t make sense for a start.
JR
February 7th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
googleknol.com/.net/.org are owned by google, unipedia doesn’t
February 7th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
It won’t be a URL, it will be a subdomain.
http://unipedia.google.com
Most likely!