Google has released some experimental features of its search engine in Search Labs. A few weeks ago, Google integrated Generative AI into Google Search as an experimental feature that gives you an AI-generated overview of a topic and allows you to follow-up instantly. Recently they have added a new notes feature on search in Search Labs.
Notes on Search allows you to share your thoughts about a search result to help others and see what others think about it. This is an experimental feature that you need to turn on in Google Search and is only available until May 2024.
To try and use this feature, open Google Search tap on the flask icon in the upper left corner, and then enable the toggle below Notes on Search. You can try the feature directly by tapping on the ‘Try an Example’ button.
After enabling this feature, whenever you search anything on Google, you will get two buttons below every result of that search. The first button will allow you to create a note for that search result and share your opinion on it. Click ‘Add Note’ to add your opinion and you will then get a canvas to create your review.
You can write your review and edit the font and color of the text. There are also options to change the alignment and style of the text. Images can also be added to Notes using the Add Image button at the top left of the keyboard. Notes also gives you the option to add stickers to your scenes, simply tap on the three dots in the top right corner which opens a menu to choose from text, image and sticker.
Below you can see the search result you are adding your opinion to and below that is the Post button which posts your note and it will be added to the Notes section of that search result.
You can view notes for any search result by tapping the Notes button below the search result. This will open all the notes added by different people about the same search result. If there is no note available it says you are the first one to add a note for that particular search result.
Notes must conform to community guidelines and may be filtered for relevance before being added to search results. You can view all your notes by simply going to your Google Profile and managing them from there. Notes on Search is similar to reviews on products, it helps other people to easily get the best search results and opinions about the search result. It also allows people to add their creativity to express their opinion uniquely.
