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Friday, January 23, 2004
The Failure of Bookmarks
I've complained about how lousy the management of bookmarks is before. Now more proof, via a study called Keeping Found Things Found, featured in this New York Times article. The study basically shows what most of us already know: that most of the things we bookmark, we seldom return to and that we spend a lot of time searching for the same things, over and over.
It sounds like the professors running the study are attempting to fix the problem via an even more complicated bookmarking scheme, which I'm sort of dubious about. I think there's a huge opportunity for Google or Yahoo to step in here and make some sort of "Save This Search" type feature, some sort of bookmarking service kept on their site. That way, your bookmarks are portable and the searches you do on Google anyway can be held and automatically updated. Just a thought.
Posted at 12:03 AM
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