2009/1/21 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
2009/1/20 Gwern Branwen gwern0@gmail.com:
'Google Knol six months later: Wikipedia need not worry'
It should be noted here that Google never, ever positioned Knol as a "Wikipedia killer" - that notion was purely and utterly a media creation.
While they never intended to replace Wikipedia, I think they did intend to rival it.