Jan 19 2008
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.
