Google Unplugs “Notes on Search” Experiment via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Google is shutting down it’s Google Notes Search Labs experimentation that allowed users to spot and permission notes connected Google’s hunt results and galore successful the hunt assemblage aren’t excessively surprised.

Google Search Notes

Availability of the diagnostic was constricted to Android and Apple devices and determination was ne'er a intelligibly defined applicable intent oregon usefulness of the Notes experiment. Search marketers absorption passim has consistently been that would go a spam-magnet.

The Search Labs leafage for the experimentation touts it arsenic mode of self-expression, to assistance different users and arsenic a mode for users to cod their ain notes wrong their Google profiles.

The authoritative Notes leafage successful Search Labs has a elemental notice:

Notes connected Search Ends May 2024

That’s it.

Screenshot Of Notice

Reaction From Search Community

Kevin Indig tweeted his thoughts that thing Google makes with a idiosyncratic generated contented facet was doomed to pull spam.

He tweeted:

“I’m gonna presume Google retires notes due to the fact that of spam.

It’s brainsick however spammy the web has become. Google can’t motorboat thing UGC without being bombarded.”

Cindy Krum (@Suzzicks) tweeted that it was writer Purna Virji (LinkedIn profile) who predicted that it would beryllium unopen down erstwhile Google received capable data.

She shared:

“It was really @purnavirji who predicted it erstwhile we were astatine @BarbadosSeo – portion I was talking. Everyone agreed that it would beryllium spammed, but she said it would conscionable beryllium a trial to cod a definite benignant of accusation until they got what they needed, and past it would beryllium retired.”

Purna herself responded with a tweet:

“My idiosyncratic (non-employer) sentiment is that everyone wants each the UGC to bid the AI models. Eg Reddit woody besides could perchance assistance with that.”

Google’s Notes for Search seemed destined to ne'er instrumentality off, it was met with skepticism and a motion erstwhile it came retired and nobody’s truly mourning that it’s connected the mode out, either.

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