The launch of a new Google tool called Sidewiki will allow user-generated content and other relevant sources to appear alongside webpages.
A new Google tool will allow user-generated content containing suggestions and recommendations for other internet users to appear on the side of the screen next to any website.
The Google Sidewiki was launched this week in an attempt to harness useful contributions from other web users in order to improve the way people search for information, according to Sundar Pichai and Michal Cierniak, writing on the official Google blog.
Mr Pichai, vice-president of product management, pointed out that the application will be available on Firefox and Internet Explorer initially, but a version for Google Chrome is in development.
The most relevant user-generated content will appear on Sidewiki alongside other related web pages, such as blogs and stories which discuss the same topic.
"Instead of displaying the most recent entries first, we rank Sidewiki entries using an algorithm that promotes the most useful, high-quality entries," he added.
This week, Google released Fast.Forward., which is a business video channel on MySpace offering interviews with media experts and research projects in partnership with the
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