We don’t need search engines, we have del.icio.us!
I adore del.icio.us. It is a simple and brilliant service that saves a lot of time and it is free.
To tell the truth, I do not remember when I used Google or any other search engine for the last time – probably just to check ranking positions of my websites. In case I need information I can trust and find fast I go to del.icio.us and browse the website literally for hours discovering more and more fantastic resources, applications and services in miscellaneous industries.
Some facts from the history:
The website del.icio.us (pronounced as “delicious”) is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. The site came online in late 2003 and was founded by Joshua Schachter, co-maintainer of Memepool.
A non-hierarchical keyword categorization system is used on del.icio.us where users can tag each of their bookmarks with a number of freely chosen keywords (cf. folksonomy). A combined view of everyone’s bookmarks with a given tag is available; for instance, the URL “http://del.icio.us/tag/wiki” displays all of the most recent links tagged “wiki”. Its collective nature makes it possible to view bookmarks added by similar-minded users.
I recommend you checking these very useful resources to get more benefits from the website:
Several Habits of Wildly Successful del.icio.us Users
Become a del.icio.us Power User
Absolutely Del.icio.us Tools Collection
del.icio.us is one website from the list of social websites. In my case it is the most useful. I can easily do without others from the list, but I explore del.icio.us daily.
Why do I prefer it to Google and other search engines? Because it returns much better results. For instance, if I browse by keywords I also pay attention to how many people bookmarked this page. If it shows a high number of people I am sure that it is a good and reliable source. And I am sure that it is not an artificial bookmarks – digg.com (just another popular social website) is regularly criticized for its not quite objective way to feature website users’ content and news).
Summary: Well, I do not think that 100% persons share my excitement about this service, but most do, otherwise Yahoo! would not bother buying this service on December 2005.
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