Google Notebook to be Announced

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Google continues its development of new and interesting features. Among some of the new things that have come out of Google this year are Calender, SketchUp 3D modeling software and Finance. Earlier this week, Google introduced what it calls Google Notebook

Notebook is designed to enable Google users to better find information that is relevant to what they're looking for. Google Notebook will be integrated into a customized Google account, where users can set Notebook to track what they search for, what results come up, and what links they click on. Altogether, Google Notebook will create a organized journal of how users use Google and where the results take them, so that with each and every uses, Google Notebook will be able to tell Google how to deliver better results to that specific user.
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http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=2277
 
Google Notebook has finally arrived. What is it? Google calls it "an online 'notebook' where you can organize all your research, add personal notes to it, and share it with others," and this is an apt description. A more technical description might describe Google Notebook as a kind of "web clipboard," inasmuch as you can "cut and paste" links, text, images, etc., into your online notebook.

Better than "cut and paste," Google Notebook uses browser extensions to allow users to easily mark materials using a right-click contextual menu, as pictured below. The two-click operation silently adds the item to your Google Notebook, which you can then retrieve later from any location. Google Notebook users will also see modified Google search results, with "Note this" appearing to the right of the usual "Cached - Similar Pages" links on search results.

Users can establish multiple notebook categories, if they wish, and can even choose to make some of those categories publicly viewable at a special URL. You can then arrange your clips in your notebook and annotate them if you desire, but strangely you cannot assign clips to multiple notebooks (that is, your new Thai recipe couldn't sit in both your "Thailand" notebook and your "cooking" notebook). Tagging is not supported, either.

Google Notebook is only available for Firefox and Internet Explorer at this time.
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http://www.google.com/notebook
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060516-6841.html
 
This seems to be identical to Opera's built in Copy to Note feature.
I hope that this time around they atleast sort out the privacy issues before launching.
 
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