Meet the New Anchor Text...
Google has began placing bookmarks inline with the associated search results...
Your bookmark label is inserted into the search results near the associated site. That tag is linked to a Google search history search for items tagged with that same tag. You also can tag a result using multiple tags. Google suggests tags based on past tags you have used.
Google nearly cloned Del.icio.us and put it in their SERPs and toolbar.
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Annotations = tags?
It's possible that Google did. But the timing is interesting.
The patent application that describes Google's Bookmark manager, Methods and systems for personalized network searching, was originally filed on December 3, 2003. I'm not sure of the exact start date for Del.icio.us, but the Wikipedia entry points to late 2003.
The patent application describes "annotations" which sound very much like tags from their examples. Here's one:
So, was it cloning, or was it an idea that was in the atmosphere at the time, that more than one source picked up upon?
The patent application also provides for returning these annotation with search results:
Nice find Bill Am sure they
Nice find Bill
Am sure they were thinking of tagging and bookmarks long ago, but I am saying that the format of what they launch was exceptionally similar to Del.icio.us.
But then again there are only so many ways you can integrate tagging.
They don't have Del.icio.us's userbase heavily tagging just yet, but unlike Yahoo! they do not own multiple tagging systems that they have to worry about somehow integrating.