Google Notebook can now find its own sources

Google has added a new feature to notebooklm which allows the IA notes taking tool Find your own web sources to summarize and tell. Instead of manually downloading sources such as documents or YouTube links, users can now press the “Discover” button and simply describe the subject they want to better understand, with the tool, then bring web sources around the subject.

Google says that the Discover functionality has started to take place on Wednesday and will take “about a week about a week” to be available for all users.

Notebooklm will chase “hundreds of potential web sources in seconds” according to Google, analyzing the most relevant options, then presenting a list of ten recommendations, each with a summary explaining its relevance. Users can select which of these sources wish to reference notebooklm and import them into other features, including FAQs, information documents, and Podcast audio overview who use AI hosts to discuss a subject.

Sources will be recorded in Notebooklm to allow users to read them directly and use them as references for quotes, notes and response capacities to questions. Google says that Discover Sources is the first of several features of Gemini executive booklets which are under development to facilitate the search for mobile phone equipment.

Another ability withdrawn from this is “I feel curious” – a button that invites Notebooklm to generate sources on a completely random subject. It’s a good way to see what the functionality is capable of, but also a fun way to learn about new subjects, a bit like Characteristic of the random article of Wikipedia.