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Aug 18 2008

Why is Google NOT in the social bookmarking space?

Published at 10:35 am

Via TechCrunch: Here’s a social bookmarking site that downloads the full text of the pages you bookmark so you can search through that text. Yesterday I did a post about bit.ly and I talked about how these new URL shortening sites that are springing up should get into social bookmarking, because it’s a natural fit. While you’re on there getting a shorter URL, it would be a simple matter to also bookmark the page. Now here’s another parallel: both bit.ly and del.izzy go and grab the page when you shorten its URL or bookmark it, respectively.

Why is Google not in this space? It wouldn’t have to go grab the page when someone bookmarks a page or shortens an URL – it has already spidered it, in all likelihood. And the bookmarking aspect would integrate nicely with GMail/Reader and the sharing features there.

Update: Google does do bookmarks. Who knew? Pretty low profile. And no social aspect (they’re private bookmarks). And of course, no integrated URL shortening service.

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