{"id":186,"date":"2006-01-30T13:37:23","date_gmt":"2006-01-30T18:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/index.php\/2006\/01\/30\/google-bookmarks-is-that-the-best-they-can-do\/"},"modified":"2006-01-30T13:37:23","modified_gmt":"2006-01-30T18:37:23","slug":"google-bookmarks-is-that-the-best-they-can-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/01\/30\/google-bookmarks-is-that-the-best-they-can-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Google bookmarks — is that the best they can do?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, it’s not as bad as the Google China thing<\/a>, but I have to say the bookmark feature that Google just released<\/a> has to be one of the lamest things to come down the Web 2.0 pike since Froogle<\/a>. I mean, come on. Saving your bookmarks with a toolbar? How 1990s. Sure, you can keep them in one place so you can get to them from anywhere — Yahoo’s only had that for about two years<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Not only that, but I have to say that Google’s implementation sucks, from a whole bunch of different perspectives. One, it relies primarily on a toolbar, which I hate. I don’t need or want another toolbar offering to install itself, and I don’t care how useful it pretends to be. Whatever happened to bookmarklets and plug-ins? I thought that was the wave of the future. Of course, Google isn’t even supporting Firefox<\/a> with this one yet, so there’s another strike against it. And when you go to the Google<\/a> site — which you can do if you don’t want to use the toolbar — there’s no way to import bookmarks from a browser or file, or to sort them.<\/p>\n

Then there’s the fact that there’s nothing even remotely different about what Google is doing — no digg.com-style ratings, no del.icio.us-style sharing, no integration with any other part of the Google-verse even. Kind of like the company’s blog search isn’t anywhere to be found when you’re searching Google news<\/a>, which you would think would be a natural (Yahoo seems to think it is, since their search<\/a> blends both). In other words, a completely ho-hum product. Why even bother?<\/p>\n

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Okay, it’s not as bad as the Google China thing, but I have to say the bookmark feature that Google just released has to be one of the lamest things to come down the Web 2.0 pike since Froogle. I mean, come on. Saving your bookmarks with a toolbar? How 1990s. Sure, you can keep … <\/p>\n

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