Bookmarks (or do you prefer Favorites?) suck.
I'm surfing the web and find an interesting website. I bookmark it so I can find it again in the future, whenever I want. Sounds simple enough, right?
Except we both know it doesn't quite work that way. Bookmarks have certain limitations.
FIRST LIMITATION: They are kept locally on the computer.
You create a bookmark on your home computer-- but you cannot access that bookmark from your work computer, or vice versa. If something ever happens to that computer, odds are that all the bookmarks you ever created on it are gone forever.
SECOND LIMITATION: Organizing bookmarks is a pain.
We all have too many bookmarks, so we use some sort of folder/category system to keep track of them. The only problem is that one bookmark can't appear in multiple folders at the same time. So, if I find a web site that talks about a combination toilet/fish tank, I can put it in either the "Strange Aquariums" folder or "Bathroom Fixtures" folder-- but not both.
Google Bookmarks let you keep track of interesting web pages-- but stores them on server space associated with your Google account, rather than on the local machine. You can also provide tags for each bookmark, such as: toilet, fish, aquarium, novelty item, bathroom, etc. This means you can organize bookmarks so that they appear in two or more categories at the same time.
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