I can’t quite get my head around this one. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has been announcing via Twitter that Google has kindly donated $2 million dollars to the foundation which is all rather lovely, but what does that mean for Knol? I remember no that long ago when Google launched the service indirectly claiming that it was a ‘Wikipedia challenger’ with many claiming it would be the end of the donation-based service.
So is this is a sign of Google admitting defeat and embracing the flawed information service that we all reference? It certainly looks like it but we’ll hear what the announcement brings tomorrow when the formal statement is released?
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