Cruising Through Google Notebooks

The useful little application called Google Notebook allows people to take notes from web pages they visit and have those notes published online; these Notebooks can be set to private, but many are left public and make for a fascinating trip through the minds of Google users. The Google Labs project called Firefox and Internet Explorer open a small window where content can be added and shared online. Notebooks can be set to private, but that would not be very much fun for us. For those public notebooks, Google has set up a search engine marketing, 271 results come back. Some users have created Notebooks as collections of articles about SEM, while others made Notebooks about themselves. Sometimes a result brings back a familiar name. search engine optimization brings back about half the results of the SEM query, with many of the same results repeated there. Searching for collected a number of innovative advertising approaches appearing on multiple blogs into one Notebook. More general queries into currently popular topics, like the PS3 and Nintendo Wii gaming consoles, only returned a few dozen responses each. Scanning a few of those entries did not show anything posted after each console launched. As useful as Google Notebook can be, it may have been a too-late entry to a market where social bookmarking solutions like Delicious and a slew of others, with features like user comments, sharing, and tagging dominate the scene. Tag: Add to Del.icio.us | Digg | Reddit | Furl Bookmark Murdok: David Utter is a staff writer for Murdok covering technology and business.