Google is Ending an Experiment that Let You Annotate Search Results
Google is ending a months-old experiment that let people attach colorful notes to search results, the company confirmed to 9to5Google.
Google announced the Notes experiment for Search Labs in November. If you had opted-in to Notes, you could see and add annotations featuring text and images to links in search results in the Google app. (They were kind of a Google-y take on X’s Community Notes.) But given Tuesday’s announcement, it seems the test wasn’t popular enough to warrant a wider release.
“Search Labs is our testbed for bold experimentation and as we’ve shared, not all experiments will launch broadly,” a Google spokesperson told 9to5Google. “We’ve seen in our research that people want to hear from others like them and Notes was an…
source: https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/16/24199822/google-search-notes-labs-experiment-ends
