Google Adds Tagging
Google has silently added a Bookmarks feature to My Search History, enabling you to quickly tag and comment any web page you’ve visited. If Google in the future opens this up, letting users share their bookmarks and see bookmarking data in searches, we could see something very useful and popular.
To bookmark a page, just visit it through Google Search, get to it in your Search History, and click the star icon. Then click “edit” and type in any tags under the “Labels” heading. You can even add some notes in the box underneath that.
Once you’ve saved a bunch of sites, you can view them by clicking the Bookmarks heading in the left sidebar. You can show multiple tags at once by clicking all of their check boxes.
This is a new feature, so now complaints as to capabilities. It works, and I hope it’ll only get deeper. Fusion seems to be one of the Google projects that gets updated very often and visibly (the others being Gmail and Maps).
The only thing that annoys a little: Its semi-AJAX, with the stars updating in real-time and the edit button opening up without a reload, but everything else requires the page reload. If Google could make this a full-fledged, no-reload AJAX app, it’ll make Del.icio.us look like a child’s toy.
(Hat-tip: Atul)
UPDATE: Brian points out in the comments some of the best stuff: One feature I left out, Autocomplete for the tags, helping you with tags you’ve already used (and consistency, which is important); and one I didn’t notice, that the tag “homepage” gets put on your Google Personalized homepage.
This is an example of Google doing something right without trying so hard to be fancy. Fusion is working, even if so many other things aren’t.
[…] Google Inside では この Bookmark を他のユーザとシェアできるようになると 晴らしい と言ってて、たしかにそれが 当な進化 と思うけど、そしたら巷の Social Bookmark サービスと正面から競合するよねえ。やぱし Google の一人勝ちなん ろか。 […]
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Google Adds Tagging To Search History
Google quietly added tagging to it’s bookmark/search history feature. Inside Google has the scoop….
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Holy crap. It’s not often you have to seriously think about changing your homepage. Getting my Bookmarks synced up with what I’ve got in Firefox would take a little work, but once done - wow! Tagging being 10x better than folders, I may have to consider this.
Comment by Brock | October 10, 2005
I like how as you start to type in the labels box, if the label already exists it has a auto-complete feature. Also, I noticed that any bookmark that you label with homepage automatically shows up on your personalized Google homepage.
Comment by Brian | October 11, 2005
I think this is a super step in the right direction, but the service to ‘beat’ isn’t del.icious (despite all the hype surrounding it), but rather Spurl and/or Furl, two outstanding and feature-rich services that not only let you bookmark sites and optionally share all or part of your bookmark list with others, but also store a cached copy and the full-text of each bookmarked page! Yahoo’s MyWeb is functional along the same lines and, IMHO, quite promising, too.
Comment by Adam | October 11, 2005
Yahoo! Blog search kind of almost is better than Google Blog Search
Yesterday Yahoo! brought out their podcast section and gave iTunes serious competition. Today Yahoo brings out their Blog search which is integrated with Yahoo! News Search. Yahoo! says the results include blogs, Flickr photos and My Web links. But Tom…
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[…] Google has added tagging and commenting to their My Search History. Just go to My Search History on your Google Home Page (enable it if you don’t have it), click on the star and it will allow you to add tags and comments. Adding more tags, will allow you to have a Bookmark column with your different tags organized. It also features auto-complete as well. […]
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Google Search History Adds Tags
Nathan Weinberg says that Google has added bookmark/tagging features to “My Search History.” This enables users to quickly tag and comment any web page you’ve visited. He speculates that if Google opens this up, letting users share their bookmark…
Trackback by Micro Persuasion | October 11, 2005
[…] According to Nathan Weinberg of InsideGoogle, Google has silently added a Bookmarks feature to My Search history, which lets you tag and comment pages you find on Google. To bookmark a page, just visit it through Google Search, get to it in your Search History, and click the star icon. Then click “edit” and type in any tags under the “Labels” heading. You can even add some notes in the box underneath that. […]
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Adam, I’ve always believed the service to beat was always the market share leader.
Comment by Nathan Weinberg | October 11, 2005
Google Search History Tagging Folksonomies…Please Tag My Site
Google adds tagging to their My Search History. Yahoo! adds blogs to their news search.
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[…] (via Nathan Weinberg) Google has silently added a new feature called Bookmarks to My Search History. This new feature will enable the users to easily tag and comment on any web page they’ve visited using Google Search. […]
Pingback by Technoogle » Blog Archive » Google quietly adds Tagging | October 11, 2005
what is graet for me it support multitag search:
ie. label:fun OR label:comic
Comment by dxOne | October 11, 2005
I put together a simple little “how-to” here.
Comment by Nathan Lanier | October 11, 2005
[…] Google has updated their My Search History functionality. You can now bookmark, tag and add comments to particular webpages you find in Google. This is handy in and of itself. I can see Google doing any number of things with this- opening it up so people can share them (a la del.icio.us), use them as a basis to recommend pages, use them to try to optimize/personalize searches to you based on pages you’ve been interested in in the past, to build folksonomies, or who knows what else. This is pretty cool. Main story here via Micropersuasion. Comments » […]
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I would agree that del.icio.us is the service to beat. I do miss the webpage saving that other services do, but nothing else beats the amazing ease of use of delicious. Yahoo MyWeb doesnt come close with Yahoos overcomplicated interfaces. I would say Google has a good chance, and I hope they continue with it.
They need to unbundle it from Search History first of all, and add the social aspects.
Comment by badrad | October 11, 2005
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Google vs del.icio.us?
Looks like Google has added a new feature to their Personalized Search Beta that could open up a Google-powered del.icio.us or Spurl type service.
Now when you visit a site from a Google Personalized Search, you have the added ability to create a Bookmark for the site. Once you do that, you can tag the site with Google Labels and search against those tags in your personalized search later on.
In addition, you can add comments on the bookmark Furl-style.
Imagine if Google makes this feature available outside of your own personal search - that is share everyone’s tags in real time del.icio.us style, or allow everyone to search on tags a la technorati. Seeing others’ comments on a site in Google search could add a new wrinkle to targeted search results (and possibly open it up further to tag spam.)
Are we seeing the beginnings of a new tag search for Google?
Via Nathan Weinberg
Comment by Chris Webb | October 11, 2005
Yea, why are all you people so comfortable with that search history thing? I know atleast 99.9% of you look at porn and other private material online. Even if all you are doing is some benign browsing the kind of information collected is frightening.
I hope they unbundle the bookmarks feature, as well.
Comment by Moo Man | October 11, 2005
I think the first thought that comes to most webmasters - regardless of background - is “How do I manipulate this to benefit my site?”.
Sergey has spoken of automation as the utlimate solution for search in his eyes - human user input will always lead to another form of manipulation IMO.
Comment by Brian Turner | October 11, 2005
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Google joins the tagging rage
Tuesdays at 1pm every week except for the first Tuesday of the month, I co-host a web chat on traffic/tech on the web. Today we talked about tagging at length and I neglected to mention the newest entry to the tagging arena: Google!
Nathan at Insi…
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Google Tagging - Zzzzz…..
So what exactly have Google done recently that’s new or innovative? Not much by my reckoning, we’ve had..
GTalk - Yawn…
Blog Search - Yawn…
Google Reader, well i’d Yawn… but it’s not even a damn alpha release..
And now we have yet another …
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Google tagged bookmarks
Google’s released a new feature with their Personalized My Search History offering: the ability to bookmark and tag URLs you’ve clicked on from Google search results. To turn on search history recording, you must be signed in with a…
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google adds tagging and bookmark
» Google Adds Tagging InsideGoogle » part of the Blog News Channel google在search history服務裡增 了bookmark和tag的功能，只要在搜尋結果的網站前 個星號(就像 在gmail裡用的一樣)，就可以編輯這個書…
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[…] Google has introduced this week a new feature which enabled users to tag and comment any webpage in their ‘My search history’ page. This feature which has been around elsewhere for a while now, can allow them later to apply tagging patterns into real search results. […]
Pingback by SEO Weblog » Blog Archive » Google Tagging, Yet Another Attempt | October 12, 2005
[…] גוגל השיק השבוע שירות חדש המאפשר למשתמשים להדביק ‘תויות חכמות’ לדפים ה מצאים בהיסטורית החיפוש. השירות, בדומה ל - del.icio.us מאפשר לבחור בקלות דפים, להוסיף הערות לגביהם, כמו גם לסמן אותם עם תויות. עד כאן הכל בסדר, אך הטע ה היא שבזמן שא שים מסמ ים דפים עם תויות לאורך זמן, זה יהיה פקטור וסף במיקום דפים אלה בגוגל, כמו גם חישוב ערך של דפים בזמן שדפים עם מספר רב של תויות דומות יקבלו ערך גבוה. […]
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The latest search engine stuff
A lot going down in the search engine area, so here’s a quick link wrap-up: –Gada.be: Chris Perillo, who is based in southern California, has unveiled a way to do a search directly from the address bar on your browser. At http://www.Gada.be, you ente…
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[…] Google has added a capability to tag bookmarked sites (link, link). The tags aren’t public so this doesn’t support social tagging. Yet. “To bookmark a page, just visit it through Google Search, get to it in your Search History, and click the star icon. Then click “edit” and type in any tags under the “Labels” heading. You can even add some notes in the box underneath that. […]
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[…] Oh so quietly Google added a tagging feature to their My Search History product. I believe Google will eventually find ways to trust Google accounts more the same way they trust domains more as they age. The tags surely can be abused, but so can links. Just like link anchor text, the tagging could be used by Google to help understand the aboutness of a page or site. […]
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Google met tagging
Trackback by frEdSCAPEs | October 13, 2005
I have played a bit with this new Bookmarks thing - and I can add one more complaint to your list already. There is no way to “un-bookmark” a page you have bookmarked unless you delete it from your search history. Now, what if I have bookmarked something by mistake but still want to keep that page in my history? Also, it is so un-search-engine-like not to let people bookmark the whole searches, even if no result has been clicked after that search… I mean, what if you’re regularly checking the number of indexed pages on your (or client’s) site? You wouldn’t click on the search results but it would still be handy to be able to find that particular search easily through bookmarks instead of typing it all over again. Right, this would mostly be of use for SEOs and such, but still…
Comment by IrishWonder | October 13, 2005
Google Adds Tagging
http://google.blognewschannel.com/index.php/archives/2005/10/10/google-adds-tagging/
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[…] Google is now letting you annotate your saved links and add tags to them, as part of the Google Search History feature. […]
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Google Gets Tagging
Google has quietly enabled tags to My Search History, as reported by Inside Google. I guess what I need os more like Del.icio.us functionality, though. I need to consolidate search history with bookmarking. I bet that’s coming. [tags: Google, tagging]…
Trackback by Get Real | October 13, 2005
Irish Wonder: You can un-bookmark just by clicking the filled star to un-fill it.
Comment by Nathan Weinberg | October 13, 2005
This is already available on Yahoo!
http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myweb?dmode=vtags&dg=6
Comment by Paco Dinamico | October 18, 2005
Tags…. Tagging…
Some links about tags and tagging…. tags…. Did I say that I love tags? Well, I love them. - Danah Boyd made a neat list of links about it: articles on tagging (help?). - Google Adds Tagging: Google has silently added a Bookmarks feature to My Searc…
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[…] It seems now tags is the new black. Everybody loves tag. Now Google is tagging along. Who’s next? [via Lorelle] // Used for showing and hiding user information in the comment form function ShowUtils() { document.getElementById(”authorinfo”).style.display = “”; document.getElementById(”showinfo”).style.display = “none”; document.getElementById(”hideinfo”).style.display = “”; } function HideUtils() { document.getElementById(”authorinfo”).style.display = “none”; document.getElementById(”showinfo”).style.display = “”; document.getElementById(”hideinfo”).style.display = “none”; } […]
Pingback by Google Tags, who’s next? at Eric Setiawan | October 21, 2005
[…] From Inside Google: Google has silently added a Bookmarks feature to My Search History, enabling you to quickly tag and comment any web page you’ve visited. If Google in the future opens this up, letting users share their bookmarks and see bookmarking data in searches, we could see something very useful and popular. […]
Pingback by tagrio » Google Adds Tagging | November 11, 2005
[…] Pour conclure, je suis un adepte des tags, j’aime la liberté que cela procure dans la manière de trier et classer l’information, mais en l’état actuel les tags ne sont véritablement utilisables qu’ titre personnel. L’utilisation un niveau collaboratif donne l’impression de mieux trier l’information et de la rendre plus pertinente, mais cela n’est qu’une impression! Trop de problèmes subsistent et il est temps que quelqu’un se penche la dessus. Yahoo ou Google sont sûrement les mieux placés pour s’attaquer ce problème, l’un parce que justement il bénéficie de l’expérience de Flickr, et l’autre parce qu’il dispose de la puissance de frappe technologique et humaine nécessaire pour résoudre ces problèmes. Pourquoi est-ce que depuis 2 ans, chacun reproduit le même modèle que son voisin, avec les mêmes défauts sans jamais chercher améliorer une idée qui la base reste puissante ? Pour moi la flickerisation de Yahoo, cela reste finalement l’attentisme de Yahoo, qui reproduit dans ses différents services les mêmes défauts que ceux de Flickr, c’est dommage Plutôt que de racheter un service existant, comme le propose Patrick, Yahoo ferait mieux d’investir et innover sur ce terrain: le premier résoudre ces problèmes disposera d’un avantage indéniable. Or pour le moment, même Google avec tous les ingénieurs dont il dispose laisse ce domaine en friche: le système de tags de Google (car Google permet bien de taguer l’information via son système d’historique de recherches) ressemble en tout point ce que tout le monde fait, en tout cas pour le moment ! C’est tout aussi dommage. […]
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[…] * Google adds tagging and goes to Washington. […]
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[…] del.icio.us is a site that lets you store bookmarks online and tag them, both to be social and to provide a way to easily search them. It’s del.icio.us that’s most relevant to this discussion. I’ve quickly come to be a big fan of this site…I work on many different computers and this provides a way to get to my bookmarks on all of them. Aside: Your del.icio.us bookmarks are all public by default, and you have to go out of your way and use the “antisocial” features to keep entries private. Just a little something to keep in mind. Anyway, del.icio.us is pretty good but it seems to be in Google’s sights. Google’s personalized home page now has a Search History feature that allows you to store and tag bookmarks. (Here’s some more details on it.) Here’s how it works…let’s say you do a Google search for song lyrics. You get the regular list of results and click on one that looks good. A few days later, you need to look up more song lyrics and you say to yourself, “where was that site I found before?” So, you go to your Search History on Google and it shows you the search term you used and the result you clicked on. If you click the little star next to the web site, it gets saved in your list of bookmarks. You can then take the extra step of tagging that entry with something like lyrics by clicking the Edit link that appears to the right. The tags themselves appear in the lower left. I like Google Search History, a lot actually, but I’d really like to be able to manually add a site to my bookmarks/history, and there’s no quick way to do that now. You’d have to do a Google search for something, hope your site comes up in the results, then click it, then save it. If you do plan to do this, use the site: keyword to make your search more likely to find your site. Here’s a quick example: validator site:validator.w3.org Tune in tomorrow for part deux. google search history, tagging […]
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[…] The other thing we have to consider is this: since Google is obviously throwing its hefty weight behind labels and not tags (consider Gmail, Picasa, your search history, the toolbar and elsewhere), we might do well to realize that the de facto “word” for this behavior will not be “tag”, but will instead over time become “label”. […]
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[…] Escrito por csr el 12 Oct 2005 a las 09:05 am | Archivado como: Ledo por ah… Ya hace tiempo que Google recuerda (si se le pide amablemente) qu bsquedas hemos hecho, y en qu resultados hemos hecho click. Ahora (leo en InsideGoogle), le han dado una vuelta de tuerca ms al invento, y le han aadido un poco de ‘tagging’: al repasar el historial de bsquedas se nos da la opcin de marcar con una estrellita (la misma estrellita que ya conocemos de GMail) los enlaces clicados de inters. Una vez activada la estrella, el enlace adquiere el aspecto de los enlaces almacenados en My Yahoo! Search, y disponemos de la posibilidad de editar nuestra informacin, y colocar etiquetas al enlace… No es la herramienta de Yahoo! y, al menos de momento, carece de componente social, pero con un par de ajustes, la cosa podra ser muy til, y dar mucha guerra, no slo a My yahoo! Search, sino al resto de herramientas de ’social bookmarks’, del.icio.us incluido… […]
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Google has intorduced so many book mark for all the user of google.
Comment by kailay | March 15, 2006
Google may soon be in the role of hostage of it’s own success. The challenges just about to begin.
Comment by ratingo.com | March 28, 2006
[…] » Google Adds Tagging InsideGoogle » part of the Blog News Channel “If Google in the future opens this up, letting users share their bookmarks and see bookmarking data in searches, we could see something very useful and popular.” (tags: google search tags bookmarks folksonomy) […]
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I would like to add oen thing which is i feel that if someone responds with a post which is relevant to the topic, they should be reworded with the link they leave. Afterall, it’s the topic related responses which work to better serve your blog site.
Comment by max | July 18, 2006
Two big omissions by Google: You can’t nest folders/labels; you have to delete each one individually. I will be staying with SPURL
Comment by Kevin | August 6, 2006
well max u speak truth. but u know what every one wana to incress his link back that y he leave his link and he submit his comment.
Comment by John | August 7, 2006
This feature which has been around elsewhere for a while now, can allow them later to apply tagging patterns into real search results.
Comment by john beck | August 21, 2006
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Will someone pleade make a firefox extension so that I can just right click on a page and say “tag this page in my google bookmark with ‘abcd qwerty cool’ asdf tags”.
It would be cool wouldnt it?
Comment by fadzly mubin | November 7, 2006
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Pingback by Eric Setiawan’s weblog » Google Tags, who’s next? | December 12, 2006
So what exactly have Google done recently that’s new or innovative? Not much by my reckoning, we’ve had..
Comment by Labus | December 12, 2006
For what is worth, GMarks is getting a younger cousin called Smarky. It does for Fadzy & others:
Simpy what GMarks does for Google Bookmarks — it keeps your bookmarks and tags in Simpy in sync with your browser, it makes use of the Simpy REST API to provide full-text search right from the browser (no need to go to simpy.com to find a specific bookmark you want to get to), it has the smarts to turn tags into folder hierarchy, if you tell it to, and so on.
Comment by Otis Gospodnetic | March 11, 2007
[…] Was trying to track down the incoming link to our blog and came upon this article about 6 weeks old saying Google had added a tagging feature…but as often seems to be the case, it is tucked away and hasn’t really been pushed in front of people…read article> Posted by Tully | […]
Pingback by DataDigga » Google adds tagging…. | April 19, 2007
hi,
I’m new here..really nice tips for me. I never use this one. Thanks.
Comment by dxblogger | July 3, 2007
Woow, I did not know this.. I know Yahoo does bookmarking Tagging but Google.
Thanks for the info.. how can we start to use the feature.. any idea..
Thanks
Comment by TimuM | July 19, 2007
How can i add my site http://www.3mobilephonedeal.co.uk/
Comment by Dino | July 21, 2007
Thank you for sharing the above information.
I would like to know where I can find the tagging section on Google?
Thanks
Comment by Wong Seoul | July 29, 2007
I am also new, I made a comment but didnt seem to post lol, this ones shorter….Tagging and social bookmarking for me are the logical way to improve how we use the web….web 2.0
Comment by Graham Lyons | August 4, 2007
Google just gets better and better, I love the bkmk feature, but I am kinda worried that Google track too much personal info now….what do you guys think?
Comment by Cameron | August 7, 2007
I think the idea of sharing bookmarks is going to have a negative impact on smaller sites. Pages that are already powerful with google, will get more powerful, and its the same old story.
As far as the average user goes, arent we just going to have a repeat of Pop music charts? Rubbish tunes getting high ranking cause they look good/sexy.
I think this feature would be better suited to webmasters than the general public.
Comment by Chris | August 8, 2007
I have visited your site 108-times
Comment by Visitor694 | August 9, 2007
lol, just found and read this article and seen 2 of my staff posting comments, I guess thats a good thing that they are ahead of me.
Gotta totally question Chris’s remarks #73 though….
“As far as the average user goes, arent we just going to have a repeat of Pop music charts? Rubbish tunes getting high ranking cause they look good/sexy.
I think this feature would be better suited to webmasters than the general public.”
Looking good and being sexy can sometimes win, isnt that the society we live in?
If left to webmasters to decide then we may as well get into a time machine and go back to meta tags, it will be abused!!!!
Social bookmarking lets the masses, not the selected few decide whats popular, yeah u mightn’t like the decisions but if the majority do then it stands to reason that they get better listings.
If you are into something obscure then its obscure for a reason and doesn’t qualify for a top popular (”POP”) position.
Comment by Michael | September 4, 2007
Thank you for sharing the above information.
I would like to know where I can find the tagging section on Google?
Thanks
Comment by Wordpress | September 16, 2007
Nice, I’m glad they added this.
Comment by freebie jen | October 23, 2007
I think it’s very usefull, because when you format your windows (and forget to backup your favourites), you can always get them on the tagspage from Google.
Comment by Website maken | October 28, 2007