After announcing it at its Press Day last week, Google has taken the cover off Google Notebook, a program that lets you bookmark Web pages and pieces of content from Web pages. As with Yahoo's
Del.icio.us, you can add a note to and categorize each piece of content, then publish it to the Web. Multiple Notebooks can be created, and a search function lets you crawl your own and other public
Notebooks. You can tag Google search results by clicking on the "note this" link at the bottom of each result or you can tag items on the open Web with an IE or Firefox extension by highlighting text
and right-clicking. TechCrunch says Google Notebook will have some degree of success just because it comes from Google and has been built directly into search results, but by and large, the product is
uninspired and just adds to the long list of unfinished Google Labs products that have been released to the public. I think the fact you can bookmark search results is fantastic; bookmarking on the
Web hasn't become a mainstream thing yet, but a product like this that allows you to aggregate Web content and basically create your own pages about the things that interest you is a giant step
forward for Web personalization.
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