Are you looking for a way to organize your bookmarks? What is a bookmark? Online, a bookmark is the digital version of marking down a page in a real book. The link saves to a place in a web browser or website for safekeeping, so that you can access it at a later time. Research shows that at least 27 percent of web users use some form of page storing. My Google Bookmarks is becoming one popular way for users who want to keep their bookmarks more organized, labeled, and secure than they might be just on a default web browser. Here are three common questions about the Google bookmarks toolbar, as well as answers.

1. What makes My Google Bookmarks different from other bookmarking tools?

The main difference, besides predictable differences in website layout, is that Google bookmark is, by default, private, unlike most other bookmarking sites that are optimized for sharing purposes. Google bookmark is a service geared toward people who want to keep information for themselves rather than sharing it on social networking and with other users on the website.

2. What are the benefits of using a bookmarking service like the one Google provides?

There are a lot of advantages. For one, these websites usually come with a search function. On my old web browser, I would have to search for several minutes by scrolling to find the links I wanted. This is not very efficient, and can get confusing once you have hundreds of links. In addition to search, many also support tagging. Online bookmark managers are not susceptible to the same risks that computers and web browsers are, where faults with either could result in a loss of stored bookmarks.

3. Why do people use bookmark pages to begin with?

There are many reasons people are drawn to social bookmarking. Many people use these sites to help organize their resources for writing research papers. It is easy this way to create folders for different sources, that one can pull up for writing a specific page or paragraph. Others use bookmarking sites to connect to others on the web by sharing and discussing various links.