Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking is defined as an organized way of dealing with your bookmarking sites. It involves properly storing, managing and searching for relevant social bookmarking sites. First launched in 1996, it made life easier for website users by the use of “social bookmarking” and “tagging”. Tagging has been known to be an important part of the bookmarking system and it is a helpful tool for users to organize their bookmarks in varied ways. It also paved the way to sharing of vocabularies that are known as folksonomies.
The main purpose of social bookmarking is to allow the website user to focus on the littlest detail of his or her research. By typing the exact keyword, it zeroes in the right website and makes life a lot easier and better for the searchee. By emailing a friend or a family member about something you find interesting and telling them about this certain link to a website, you are actively doing social bookmarking or tagging. You are saving the specific link to the web and since you are online, you can easily share the same link to your friends who might be curious and interested too.
The first known social bookmarking site is itList but the most popular social bookmarking sites nowadays are unarguably Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, StumbleUpon, Delicious, Digg and few other . They can do a lot for website users because not only can you share your favourite links, you can also find out what your friends are interested or up to when it comes to these bookmarking sites. There are varied categories like technology, science, shopping, politics; news, history and you can have a pick on any of them. That’s the reason why social bookmarking sites are also referred to as intelligent search engines.
By making your website a popular social bookmarking site, it paves the way to making your site to a narrow, short list of “intelligent search engines.”!
