image credit: techrepublic It has been about a week since the launch of Google Knol, a user-generated knowledge-base project that some have referred to as a Wikipedia-killer, while others put it more in the boat with a Squidoo or Mahalo. Since then, there has been a great amount of press around whether or not Google is making dangerous steps into the content business. People in the web industry are growing increasingly uncomfortable with the way recent Google launches (Knol)...