Google usually learns about websites by silently watching user behaviors and link patterns. Soliciting sloppy human-generated metadata has never been their thing. They have good reason to stay away from that: you often learn a lot more from watching how humans behave than listening to them talk. That’s why Google SearchWiki was such a departure from the norm. Now Google bravely forges deeper into the social muck with Google Sidewiki, a collaborative annotation service for Web sites. [Read more…]

Originally posted on September 24, 2009 @ 8:19 am