A very apt explanation of the role social bookmarking has--it acts as a new kind of search engine for content, but actually much more like an index done by hand
Heather Glogowski's List: web 2.0
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The web is vast. Far too vast for anyone to have a hope of negotiating by themselves. When you start to look for information online, very often the first place you turn to are the search engines to bring home web pages that will fit what you're looking for.
Search engines, however, are not always the best of even the most efficient way of finding great online content. Anyone that has ever waded through page after page of Google results hoping that they have hit on that elusive keyword can vouch for that.
Social bookmarking brings to the equation something that search engines can't compete with - the human touch. Just as the internet has millions of pages, so it also has millions of users, and if even a fraction of those users share the sites they've found interesting, useful or just plain bizarre with each other, there is suddenly a vast resource for anyone searching the web to tap into.
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Apr 22, 08
Kevin Lim's useful blog of all things techy, cool, fun, and usually useful
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Apr 22, 08
filter blog - people gathering interesting info from all over the web, on a daily basis
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overarching umbrella list of web 2.0 related stuff
Updated on May 13, 08
Created on Apr 22, 08
Category: Computers & Internet
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