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Knol is the latest offering from world's leading search engine Google, believed to be a direct competition to Wikipedia.Org, The term Knol meaning "unit of knowledge" refers to both the project and an article in the project.

Unlike Wikipedia, Knol will have registered posters and no anonymous posting is allowed, the website is available to only invited beta users and no URL has been provided for the service yet to general public.

Only a single screenshot of the service was released on Google's blog here.

According to Google:

A knol on a particular topic is meant to be the first thing someone who searches for this topic for the first time will want to read. The goal is for knols to cover all topics, from scientific concepts, to medical information, from geographical and historical, to entertainment, from product information, to how-to-fix-it instructions. Google will not serve as an editor in any way, and will not bless any content. All editorial responsibilities and control will rest with the authors. We hope that knols will include the opinions and points of view of the authors who will put their reputation on the line. Anyone will be free to write. For many topics, there will likely be competing knols on the same subject. Competition of ideas is a good thing.

Danny Sullivan, an editor of Search Engine Land speculates, "Google’s goal of making Knol pages easy to find on search engines could conflict with its need to remain unbiased."

We would love to hear about your thoughts on this,
Will Google favor Knol over Wikipedia ?

Speedbit - the makers of popular software "Download Accelerator Plus (DAP)" have came up with an interesting free software to speedup video loading of 60+ popular video websites like YouTube & MetaCafe, The new offering named SpeedBit Video Accelerator makes your videos stream faster and play smoother by reducing buffering problems and video interruptions or "hiccups".

The software assigns a proxy to your web browser and all connections to the video are routed through SpeedBit servers, utilizing multiple connections resulting in videos without breaks and pauses.

RapidShare is the world leader in one-click file hosting arena, despite being the most popular file-sharing service rapidshare.com lacks file search feature, the only reason I can assume they lack this feature is to avoid searching of copyrighted files by their legal owners getting illegally distributed by this pirate friendly file-hosting service. Nevertheless, their exist many services which allow you to search files hosted on rapidshare.com and other major file-sharing services like Megaupload.com, these free file search engines can be used to search for links of software, movies, music and ebooks hosted on rapidshare and similar services.

We have also created free OpenSearch & Google Toolbar plugins for searching rapidshare files from Firefox and IE7 search box, Just click on the plugin links below to get easy access to file-search:

Rapidshare File Search Plugin For Firefox & IE7 >>

Rapidshare File Search Google Toolbar Button For Firefox & IE7 >>

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We have posted about many free voip services from time to time, The Pudding is a new free VOIP service provider currently under private beta, the service offers ad supported unlimited free calling to any phone is USA and Canada from a browser, their innovative voice recognition technology will pick up keywords from your voice conversation and display relevant webpages, links and advertisements related to the keyword, in the screenshot below the user is having a talk about hawaii and The Pudding is displaying webpages and advertisment related to hawaii.

This ad supported VOIP service promises a lot for the future and we can see future services offering free worldwide unlimited VOIP calling.

Click Read More For The Free Private Beta Registration Link..