According to Google, a knol is “a unit of knowledge, an authoritative article about a specific topic.” The Google Knol service just reached 100,000 articles and it’s finally being recognized as a potential competitor to Wikipedia. If you’d like to learn more, here’s how you can get started reading and contributing to Google Knol!
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The latest version of Google Earth 5.0 is released and promises to provide breathtaking views beneath the seas and oceans of the world. Download Google Earth and check out where the deep oceans lead to.
Google Earth provides amazing satellite imagery, maps, terrain, and 3D buildings. From galaxies in outer space, now you can dive beneath [...]
Google has some of the most popular applications available on the web. Check your email, create or edit documents, or read the latest changes on your favorite blogs. Accessing some of these useful applications while on the go gives you freedom from your personal or work computer.
With Google’s web based applications, you’re no longer tied [...]
Google Reader went for a design makeover losing curves and colors. New design has lot of spacing and things spread out little more. Incase this spacing is too much for you and want to read more stuff in less space then checkout ‘Google Reader Absolutely Compact’.
It reduces empty space among different elements of Google Reader [...]
If you love connecting and sharing with friends and want to share all your favorite blog posts and other articles with your friends on Twitter, here is a cool trick for you.
I hope that Google Reader is your default feedreader. Open your “shared items” page from the left navigation section.
Now focus on the URL of [...]
Google Chrome did experience huge response initially but most of that was just out of curiosity. People did downloaded Google Chrome madly during the first two weeks but that was because they wanted to experiement with the new browser and the hype that was created around it.
Those days are gone and now its time for [...]
The Google Chart API is a web service that you can connect to quickly generate charts for your blogs or websites. Since it is a web service, you will not have to install anything in your web server. All you need is a basic understanding on how it works.
Here is an actual example of a [...]
Google Sites allows you have your own content available on the web. Unlike blogs, Google Sites work like MS Sharepoint wherein you can control who can and cannot edit the contents of your site.
With this website creation tool you don’t have to install anything to write your own page – you can do them [...]
Back when Gmail was first launched, it was the cleanest among all other webmail providers. Ever since then, Gmail’s interface hasn’t significantly changed. Starting today, Gmail Team has started rolling out themes to their users.
The service will display rotating text ads along the bottom of a video. The ads will be displayed only on videos embedded on pages for participating publishers, but not on YouTube pages. The service is currently available in the US only. Google did not disclose any details for an international launch.
