Google is ending an experiment that let you annotate search results

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A screenshot showing Google’s Notes experiment.

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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,” Google spokesperson Ashley Thompson said in a statement to The Verge. “We’ve seen in our research that people want to hear from...

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