It seems like Wikipedia will have a major competitor soon. Google is launching what it calls a "Knowledge Project", basically an Encyclopaedia.
The company plans to share income from ads with the authors of all entries, thus giving people the incentive to not only post information onto the site but to also make that information correct.
Google is expanding at such a rate that Micro$oft must be worrying about their own future online. As I have previously written, Google are producing a phone based system, well they have formed a group called the Open Handset Alliance (OHA), now consisting of 34 companies, which will act as a new platform for mobile phones and the code for this platform will be open source, meaning it will be open for modification by other programmers.
Shares in Google will continue to go up as they continue to expand. I'm just waiting for the Google Virtual World with mobile phone based controls and speech based text entry.
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