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Which new offering by Google is touted to be an ‘authoritative article about a specific topic’?
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Knol
💡 Explanation:
Google Knol (which stands for 'unit of knowledge') was a Google project launched in 2008 designed to host authoritative articles written by experts on specific topics. It was positioned as a competitor to Wikipedia, where authors could write comprehensive articles on subjects they were knowledgeable about. The project was discontinued in 2012.