Tuesdays at 1pm every week except for the first Tuesday of the month, I co-host a web chat on traffic/tech on the web. Today we talked about tagging at length and I neglected to mention the newest entry to the tagging arena: Google!

Nathan at InsideBlogging notes:

Google has silently added a Bookmarks feature to My Search History, enabling you to quickly tag and comment any web page you’ve visited. If Google in the future opens this up, letting users share their bookmarks and see bookmarking data in searches, we could see something very useful and popular.

That would really be something if they opened this up and is all the more reason to at least consider to start tagging useful content in Google. I’ve been using MyWeb from Yahoo for the last six months and have been much happier with this than traditional bookmarking.

I found Google’s method of implementing tagging in their existing personalized search area, something I use every day already — which they call “bookmarks” not tags — easy to use in IE, Firefox and Opera (I didn’t test in Safari). Kudos to Google.

The addition of this feature, to me, anyway was more significant than their anti-climactic Sun announcement.