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)
Nathan Weinberg writes the popular InsideGoogle blog, offering the latest news and insights about Google and search engines.
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