Google adds Tagging Feature

Google has recently introduced  a new ‘Tagging’ feature which enables users to tag and comment any webpage in their ‘My search history’ page. This new feature which has been around in other engines for a while now, can allow them later to apply tagging patterns into real search results.  If Google opens this up in the future, letting users share their bookmarks and see bookmarking data in searches, we could see something very useful and popular.

To bookmark a page, just visit it through Google Search, get to it in your Search History, and click the star icon. Then click “edit” and type in any tags under the “Labels” heading. You can even add some notes in the box underneath that. Once you’ve saved a bunch of sites, you can view them by clicking the Bookmarks heading in the left.

While some may think that tagging your own pages can be a good SEO technique, you will need many many accounts with natural search patterns in order to allow such search spam to take place. This prompts the question, should you take the time to open so many accounts and develop the search patterns on them or should you use the same time to create a better site that will get the tagging regardless?