In fact, the Internet is a rich source of information. One can search for almost anything on the World Wide Web by simply typing a word or phrase into the search engines. It can be a business or a product. One could search for services or more detailed information on some topic. Of course, one can save the found information on the computer or bookmark the web page using the browser to return to the specific page.

However, as one searches for more and more things online and saves the information, there may come a time when searching or re-searching this saved information takes longer than searching for it. Or one may discover that their own bookmarks are so many that they have forgotten what the page was about in the first place. So how do you organize this kind of information when it gets voluminous?

Online social bookmarking services

One answer to this is to use social bookmarking or bookmarking services. With this type of service, one can sign up for an account and bookmark a particular web page that interests them, use tags to help identify what the link is about, and share the interesting ones on their social networks. At the same time, when you search for these tags again, you can see which sites other people have bookmarked for the same tags. The relevance and timeliness of the information provided is also seen, as the date of submission is also saved.

In this way, the research task is streamlined since it is possible to search for the latest update with the topics that interest one and the search for something specific is limited with the use of these services. It also becomes possible and easy to interact with people who have the same interests. Some bookmarking services are available as plugins that can be integrated into the browser to help access the same information without difficulty.

Having a plug-in social bookmarking service makes it easier for one to save the information from the site on their computers and since some of these sites also offer to save the information on the internet, this makes it easier for one to retrieve these sites virtually online. Any part of the world. Users will be able to retrieve the same information as long as they have access to the Internet and log in to that service. In the end, making use of bookmarking services frees up space on one’s computer(s) and makes it available for access from different places and on multiple computers.