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Google Notebook is a Hit

I held out writing about this topic again until they had the full search feature up and running. It’s rather interesting to see what other’s have stored in their public notebook on the topic of your choosing, you can browse thru tons of notebooks with a simple search term. Of course, you can set any or all of your notes as private, making them unsearchable. What sets this apart from Yahoo’s notebook is that it’s an extension of your browser and goes everywhere you go. It can be opened instantly from the toolbar icon and you can copy and paste anything from any webpage with just a couple of clicks, you can even paste HTML code snippets to save for closer inspection later. Even images go along for the ride if you copy paste them into a notebook file. Yahoo’s notebook on the other hand is attached directly to your Yahoo webmail account and must be used from that location only.

This is a truly handy innovation that so far I’ve enjoyed using but some people are decrying it as just one more method to track what users do on the web. I’m sure that people will come up with ways to count the most popular items in everyone’s notebooks, from popular pages, to favorite books, etc. If you can search it, so can everyone else, and most especially Google!

To get yours:
Google Notebook for IE

Google Notebook for Firefox