Google is ending an experiment that let you annotate search results

Google is ending a months-old experimentation that fto radical connect colorful notes to hunt results, the institution confirmed to 9to5Google.

Google announced the Notes experimentation for Search Labs in November. If you had opted-in to Notes, you could spot and adhd annotations featuring substance and images to links successful hunt results successful the Google app. (They were benignant of a Google-y instrumentality connected X’s Community Notes.) But fixed Tuesday’s announcement, it seems the trial wasn’t fashionable capable to warrant a wider release.

“Search Labs is our testbed for bold experimentation and arsenic we’ve shared, not each experiments volition motorboat broadly,” a Google spokesperson told 9to5Google. “We’ve seen successful our probe that radical privation to perceive from others similar them and Notes was an exploration of however to assistance radical stock their cognition close connected Search. We’re excited to proceed investigating caller ways to link radical to authentic, relatable voices and look guardant to bringing immoderate of our learnings from Notes into aboriginal merchandise experiences.”

Google didn’t instantly reply to a petition for remark from The Verge. The “Notes connected Search” conception successful Search Labs presently says “ends soon;” astatine 1 point, the extremity day was May 2024.