Social Bookmarking A New Age In Search – Part 1
This article will be in two parts because Social Bookmarking affects two totally separate and distinct groups of people. They are of course internet users or surfers on one hand and then on the other there are webmasters and blog owners. In Part One, we will focus on the users and surfers.
For all intents and purposes, Social Bookmarking sites are not that much different to Search Engines, but they offer users so much more than the traditional Search Engine site.
To demonstrate the differences, lets talk about Google for example as a search engine and how it works compared to Social Bookmarking site such as Furl or Delicious. I dont have any intention of getting into all of the technicalities here, but more of an overview to demonstrate the benefits of Social Bookmarking to users.
With Google, a web site owner purchases a domain, writes a site (lets say its about dog training for the purpose of this example), buys some hosting and puts the site live online. They may or may not choose to submit the site name to Google, but one way or another Google will eventually find the site sitting on the web....