Google Inc., expanding its efforts at providing software that helps users create and post their own materials on the Internet, has acquired a California startup that develops online collaboration ...

Google is working on a product called “Knol” — a sort of competitor to online, nonprofit encyclopedia Wikipedia. While Wikipedia lets anyone edit its articles, Google’s Knol is encouraging “people who ...

Last night on the official Google blog, Udi Manber, vice president of engineering, announced that Google is testing a publishing platform called Knol. It's being compared to Wikipedia and Mahalo.

In addition to updating the Custom Search tool with new features, Google announces creation of a custom Wikipedia skin to make searching the encyclopedia easier. CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a ...

Google, as well as many other companies, has long relied on Wikipedia for its content. Now, Google and Google.org are giving back. Google.org President Jacquelline Fuller today announced a $2 million ...

Online encyclopedia Wikipedia has launched a $2.5 million program to build "the Internet's first transparent search engine." Wikimedia Discovery, originally known as the Knowledge Engine, is being ...

Google is helping the Wikimedia Foundation achieve its goal of making Wikipedia articles available in a lot more languages. The Foundation has added Google Translate to its content translation tool, ...