Circulatable: a Librarian’s Group

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Dec

17

2007

Google influenced by librarians?

The New York Times has a short piece on a new Google service called Knol that sounds like it could have been conceived by librarians:

“We believe that knowing who wrote what will significantly help users make better use of web content,” wrote Udi Manber, vice president of engineering, on the official Google blog.

The service appears to be a wiki-style hosting service that puts a premium on identifying authorship.

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